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Neuroscience Degree to Start With Class of 2020 The new major answers student and faculty interest. BY SAMANTHA KARL Heights Staff On Oct. 5, the Boston College psychology department announced a bachelor of science degree in neuroscience, the first degrees for which will be awarded to the Class of 2020. The major may be declared as early as Sept. 1, 2019 by the classes of 2020, 2021, and 2022. The neuroscience major will not be available to the Class of 2019. The department sent out a survey in March 2017 to evaluate interest in a neuroscience major among current psychology majors. Fifty-three

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percent of students said that they either agreed or strongly agreed that their interest in a neuroscience career had increased over their time at the University. Nearly 49 percent of respondents either agreed or strongly agreed that, assuming they would still graduate on time, they would change their major to neuroscience. “The Neuroscience degree will provide students with key skills that can lead to success in a variety of careers,” Elizabeth Kensinger, chair of the psychology department, said in an email. “The degree will deepen students’ critical thinking, scientific writing, and laboratory research skills, all while asking students to reflect deeply on the neurobiological principles that give rise to the human

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Schiller Institute $300,000,000

New Sports Facilities $200,000,000

Greater Heights $150,000,000

Total funds raised: $2,255,000,000

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News Editor The pending lawsuit against Boston College has had a jury trial date and pretrial hearing date set. The trial is set for April 22, 2019, while a pretrial hearing to hash out the scope of the case has been set for March 7, 2019, according to a new joint proposal filed by both sides. It is the first jury trial of a due process suit filed after the Obama administration reinterpreted Title IX doctrine in 2011, according to Brooklyn College professor K.C. Johnson, who chronicles Title IX litigation. The pretrial hearing will cover the “significant differences” the two parties need to resolve in front of Judge Denise Casper. The amount of witness testimony, expert witness testimony, and exactly what damages the University could be liable for will be set during the hearing. The plaintiff is attempting to bring in an expert witness on the case, but BC has made it clear it will “fight to exclude” that witness’s opinion on the grounds that the issue can only be resolved based on the testimony of the five members of the disciplinary panel that heard the plaintiff ’s case, according to the joint statement issued in August. The trial is estimated by the parties to require seven to 10 days of proceedings. Briefs will be filed in February 2019. (When the alleged incident originally occurred, the plaintiff, identified only as “John Doe” in court documents, was reporting on an event for The Heights.) The lawsuit alleged a breach of contract in regard to how Doe was disciplined when he was accused of sexual assault while on a boat cruise sponsored by the AHANA+ Leadership Council (ALC) in 2012. The University investigation into the incident led to Doe being charged for assault rather than sexual assault and a three semester-long suspension. Shortly after his suspension was issued, the criminal charges pending against him were dropped after exculpatory

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‘Greater Heights’ Aims to Bring Athletics to Top-25 Athletics will initially focus on football and men’s basketball BY JACK GOLDMAN News Editor On Sept. 28, Athletic Director Martin Jarmond announced a $150 million capital campaign solely centered around fundraising for Boston College Athletics. It is the largest athletics capital campaign to be undertaken by an ACC school, and it is designed to better develop student athletes—both from an academic and athletic perspective—through a number of avenues while increasing engagement with fans and alumni. Over the last 10 years, BC has gone on quite the spending spree: the Light the World capital campaign generated $1.605 billion for the entire University, new athletics buildings have required $200 million in investments, and $300 million is being put into the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society. In total, that’s $2.255 billion in proposed funds raised since Light the World launched in 2008. This time, though, the funds are going to something BC has never specifically fundraised for in the style of a capital campaign. Wesley Ellison-Stewart, senior associate athletic director and director of development for athletics, said that 2018 is the right time for such an initiative to get started. “When [Jarmond] joined as athletic director in June of 2017, one of the first things he evaluated was that we didn’t have a strategic plan,” Ellison-Steward said. “We

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really had never looked at where do we want to be five years from now, 10 years from now to fulfill a vision. And so over the last year, he recruited and built out his leadership team and looked at … strategic priorities that [he wanted] to address.” That led Jarmond to realize significant financial resources were required to execute his vision, according to EllisonStewart. Since Light the World ended so recently, a University-wide campaign didn’t make sense to administrators, according to Ellison-Stewart, but bringing the entire institution’s weight behind athletics was a better option at this time. “If you ask anyone across the campus what our number one fundraising priority is, it’s athletics,” Ellison-Stewart said. “So it’s unique that it’s a standalone campaign that is the only initiative before the next university-wide campaign. The goal of this campaign is ‘let’s elevate our athletic program to the level of our academic program.’” In the athletics department’s opinion, that means putting together top-25 level teams throughout the entire program, according to Ellison-Stewart. In order to do that, football and men’s basketball will be a priority. Given the trickle down effects of the big-money college sports on the other sports in college programs across the country, Jarmond and Co. will place the required emphasis on those two sports. Every BC fundraiser will be concentrating on raising funds for athletics—Ellison-Stewart was brought to the University specifically to head up a team within development to concentrate on this very project. Greater Heights

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Pending MA’s Sale Could Lead to Dispensary BC and Cleveland Circle merchants oppose the change. BY JACK GOLDMAN News Editor The Greatest Boston Bar Co., owned by development company City Realty, purchased Mary Ann’s Bar in Brighton in July, but the developers are now trying to sell Mary Ann’s— this time to Happy Valley Ventures, according to Universal Hub. Happy Valley is opening a marijuana dispensary in East Boston and, if this sale goes through, plans to convert Mary Ann’s into a dispensary as well. Boston College officials have indicated their opposition to the proposed sale, as have Cleveland Circle merchants. At the Brighton Allston Improvement Association meeting that took

place on Wednesday night, representatives from City Realty and Happy Valley notified the group of the purchase and sale agreement in place between the two companies. The intention is that, if Happy Valley can clear the required hurdles, a dispensary can be opened that Happy Valley COO and founder Michael Reardon described as similar to a doctor’s office. Recreational and medical marijuana would be made available to customers. Happy Valley will need, according to Universal Hub and Boston Patch, to receive a letter of “non opposition” from Boston City Council, as well as receive clearance from the Boston zoning board and state marijuana regulators. University Spokesman Jack Dunn and Chief of the BC Police Department Bill Evans have voiced opposition to

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Economics Major Now Classified as STEM Int’l econ students may apply for longer post-grad extension BY CELIA CARBONE For The Heights The economics major was reclassified from a social science to a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) program this summer. The major was discontinued and replaced by econometrics and quantitative economics (EQE,) which will serve as its new name. Graduate students in economics— approximately 85 percent of whom are international students—were the first to bring the request for this change to the department. There are about 400 international undergraduate students completing a four-year degree in economics, said Christopher Baum, chair

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of the department. International students participating in a 12-month optional practical training program after graduation may use a STEM degree to apply for a 24-month extension, according to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. The extension may place students in a better position to find employment, Baum said. “From [the economics department’s] standpoint, we felt it was reasonable to say that our undergraduate program is focusing on the same kind of technical training that is expected of a STEM program,” Baum said. The current BC economics curriculum involves econometrics, labs, statistics, and electives that make use of quantitative methods related to data analytics. Beyond the benefit it gives international students, the

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The psychology department will host a Q&A session for students curious about the brandnew neuroscience B.S. degree, which is open for the Class of 2020 or later. The event will take place in McGuinn 121 at 6:30 p.m. on Monday.

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A panel of professors from Boston College, Dartmouth, and Trinity College will discuss how the election of President Donald Trump and the rise of alt-right groups have changed what it means to be Jewish in America. The discussion is at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday in Higgins 310.

The BC Talent Showcase series will continue this Friday from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. outside of Lower dining hall, weather permitting. A spoken word artist from BBC Slam and a rap-a capella group will perform.

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Days before the United States Senate confirmed Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Boston College Law professor and Dean’s Distinguished Scholar Kent Greenfield weighed in on the confirmation The Take, a program on New England Cable News. Greenfield is the founder and president of the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, the named plaintiff in a 2006 Supreme Court case challenging anti-gay policies in the military. He also served as a clerk for former Supreme Court Justice David Souter. The host of the show, Sue O’Connell, raised the topic of Kavanaugh’s temperament. Critics of his nomination cited his behavior in response to allegations of heavy drinking and sexual assault during high school and college as disqualifying. “So let’s set aside for a second the very credible accusations of sexual assault, let’s set aside the very real possibility that he lied under oath about a number of things,” Greenfield said. “Let’s just talk about his judicial temperament. In the second go-around in the hearings, he was quite angry and yelling in the room about all kinds of things and said that the attacks on him were the product of a political smear campaign, motivated by people who want to get revenge against him for the Clintons.” Greenfield hit Kavanaugh for saying that “what goes around comes around,” which he called an unprecedented and clearly partisan threat. The professor also voiced confusion over the White House’s choice to keep Kavanaugh over another equally conservative nominee, explaining that perhaps it felt strongly that the accusations were nothing more than a manufactured political hit. The segment, which was filmed on Oct. 2, came just before the release of a letter in The New York Times condemning Kavanaugh’s behavior signed by 2,400 law professors, including Greenfield and 23 other BC Law faculty members.

BC Law Hosts IP Summit Boston College Law School, in coordination with Ropes & Gray LLP, a Boston-based global law firm, hosted the two-day European Intellectual Property (IP) Summit. Over 100 professors, lawyers, business executives, and representatives of associated governments converged on campus to discuss the complexities of IP issues in the face of Brexit and recent changes to European IP rights. The University hosted the forum as part of the Program on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (PIE), which BC Law launched last year in order to strengthen connections between Boston-area organizations and itself. Earlier this fall, PIE brought in IP experts from the State Intellectual Property Office of China. According to the program’s webpage, it primarily focuses on entrepreneurship, business law, and IP. Following an opening address by the Honorable F. Scott Kieff, former commissioner of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the summit moved to the topic of Brexit, the most highprofile and complex obstacle for IP rights in the near future. As the March 29, 2019 deadline for the U.K. to leave the European Union approaches, uncertainty of the future business relationship between the two rises, throwing IP rights into question. “We live in a quickly evolving period of time in terms of innovation, how businesses start and grow, how capital flows, how the benefits of business and innovation are distributed, and how multinational firms react to nation-state changes to regulations and taxes,” said BC Law Dean Vincent Rougeau to The Chronicle.

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Boston College’s Pride Week was filled with events to celebrate and uplift the LGBTQ+ community at BC, despite being only three days long. The week featured an opening event and community dinner, information on protecting trans rights, a queer intersectionality panel, and more. BC’s Pride Week required tackling complex issues. While students reflected on their identities on campus, conversation frequently turned towards intersectionality, and how the marginalization of different groups can affect the lives of students on campus. Representation came up almost as often: Nearly every event was full of media recommendations that represent voices from different identities appropriately or are educational about LGBTQ+ issues. An opening event and community dinner kicked things off, which was sponsored by the GLTBQ Leadership Council (GLC) and co-sponsored by the Dean of Students office. The next day had tabling for Yes on 3, a movement pushing for voters to support trans rights on the upcoming midterm ballot, and a Queer Intersectionality Panel. The panel featured BC students dis-

cussing their identities on campus and giving advice to attendees on a wide array from topics, from being comfortable with themselves to embodying allyship. Students on the panel also discussed queer representation in media, and shared their favorite books, music, and podcasts. The next day, Spectrum, an LGBTQ+ student support group in the BC Graduate School of Social Work, held a Trans 101 event. It was centered around educating other graduate students on the basics of trans identity and how to be more trans-inclusive in clinical care settings. The workshop was led by presenters Claire Geruson, GSSW ’19, and Clayton Lightfoot, GSSW ’19, and featured guest speakers from the Fenway Institute, the research branch of Fenway Health, Camp Aranu’tiq, and the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. The workshop covered trans issues from supporting children at summer camps to necessary considerations in regards to caring for the aging trans community, as well as including book raffles and a question and answer session. Slides included information on non-binary pronouns, trans-competent intake forms, the social and economic cost of medical/social transitions, and much more. The speakers from the

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Students and activists engage questions of identity at this year’s Pride Week. Fenway Institute also presented about necessary self-care is in the movement some current research studies that aim to to promote social change.. gather more data and explore more ways The events of pride week focused on to support trans and queer health. a range of issues affecting the LGBTQ+ The week concluded with a closing community, as well as other marginalceremony hosted by the GLC. The event ized groups. featured Rubén Gil—whose pronouns One major current issue that was are they/them—an activist who works brought up many times by separate in the trans community of color. They groups was Yes on 3, which will deterdiscussed issues central to the xicanx mine whether current protections for movement, the importance of oral tradi- trans individuals in public spaces will tion in marginalized communities, and remain in place. This upcoming midterm ally-ship and accomplice-ship. They then ballot question has also meant that acanswered questions from attendees, and tivist groups are focusing on engaging talked about the issue of burn out in voting-age students, encouraging them activists, specifically delving into how to register to vote. n

Admins Voice Support After Clery Stats Released By Jack Goldman News Editor By Charlie Power Assoc. News Editor In the wake of the Boston College’s Clery Act Crime statistics being released on Sept. 28, the administration has reiterated its support for students reporting any concerning incident to the BC Police Department, student affairs administrators, or the Dean of Students’ office. “Boston College strongly urges students to report any incidents of sexual

assault,” University Spokesman Jack Dunn said. “We have been aggressive in our efforts to encourage reporting in an attempt to bring an end to sexual violence on campus.” The numbers reported in the statistics reflect reports of alleged incidents of sexual violence, but it’s unclear to administrators both at BC and nationwide whether the increases are a result of more reporting as the culture surrounding seeking help has become more open or if another instigating factor is at work. “When you look at the numbers, it’s

impossible to tell if the increase is the result of larger numbers of this happening, or a greater percentage of people reporting,” said Melinda Stoops, associate vice president for student affairs and BC’s Title IX coordinator. “They are just showing the reports we’ve received. We don’t know anything about what hasn’t been reported.” A survey carried out by the United States Department of Justice in 2016 found one in five women were sexually assaulted while in college. That level of prevalence has caused concern that, around

the country, sexual assault incidents are being vastly underreported to authorities by students on college campuses. “I think you can even look at the culture in our country, where sometimes it is very hard for victims to come forward for fear of criticism, fear of retaliation, or [they] may not feel up to the pressure that comes with reporting,” Stoops said. “From our position, what we try to do is to create a culture here on campus where people feel safe in reporting and try to encourage as many reports of incidents as possible.” n

Interim VPSA Moore Evaluates DiversityEdu By Abby Hunt Copy Editor Boston College launched DiversityEdu this fall to educate students about the complexities surrounding diversity in the wake of the Silence is Still Violence movement and the events surrounding it. Interim Vice President of Student Affairs Joy Moore said that, overall, students she spoke to felt like the module was useful and worthy of their time. Moore explained that the committee that initiated DiversityEdu, which was made up of students, faculty, and staff, went into the program’s implementation understanding that it was not going to be a be-all, end-all solution for diversity issues. “I do hope that people didn’t think that,

‘Oh look, this one module now is going to solve our diversity issues,’ because that was not the intent. It needs to be multi-pronged and consistent and last over [long periods] of time.” Moore said that the administration tried to move swiftly to respond to requests students made for the module made following the Silence is Still Violence protests last year. Other suggestions students made after the demonstrations included increased faculty diversification, a process that Moore said has been ongoing and has achieved some success, and a student climate survey, which Moore said is currently in the works. Moore said the committee is going to meet to discuss further what exactly will happen to the program, but the expectation is that it will continue to be used in future

years, particularly for incoming freshmen. The module will be tweaked to include more scenes and faces from BC so that it will have a look and feel much more particular to the University going forward, according to Moore. The committee will look at some of the module’s sections more carefully and adjust them based on feedback as well. Some of the feedback around the module Moore received centered around the fact that it is more passive than programs like AlcoholEdu, which includes performance assessments that students must pass in order to move on with the module—DiversityEdu can be played in a minimized window for a majority of the program, allowing some students to circumvent the intended purpose of the module. “You can move through [DiversityEdu]

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without having any sort of stop blocks, and that’s sort of something that we’ll probably look at as well to see if there’s a way to tweak that, or if there’s a way to maybe score it so that you’re ending up with a number or letter or something at the end of it,” she said. “I would just hope that students feel that it’s worthy enough of their time to listen and be open to something that’s trying to create an opportunity to maybe learn something that you didn’t know you didn’t know.” Moore said the committee will probably try to enlist more students and get together to map out the instruments, programs, and ideas that can be used to create more conversation around diversity. “This isn’t going to be the end, because the diversity conversation is a lifetime conversation,” she said. n

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Friday, Oct. 12

9:00 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding a medical incident at Newton Campus.

1:39 p.m. - An officer filed a report regarding a property confiscation at McElroy parking lot.

6:24 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding a medical incident at Gabelli Hall.

2:17 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding an underage intoxicated person at Kostka Hall.

10:00 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding a medical incident at O’Connell House.

11:05 p.m. - An officer filed a report regarding assisting another department off campus.

7:51 p.m. - An officer filed a report regarding a medical incident at Fish Field House.

—Source: The Boston College Police Department

CORRECTIONS What new major would you add at BC? “Engineering. It’s going to make us a more competitive school.” — Kaleb Herd, WCAS ’19

“Marine biology. When I was touring other schools they had it and it seems fun.” — Anna Fishbein, MCAS ’19

“We should have journalism as a major, not just a minor.” — Michael Poulter, MCAS ’19

“Fashion. It’s something different and not your traditional major.” — Matt Rojas, CSOM ’22

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Kavanaugh Confirmation Inspires Consternation Among Professors By Jack Goldman News Editor By the time the sun set on Oct. 5, 24 professors from Boston College Law School signed a letter alongside 2,400 other law professors from across the country, presented on that day to the United States Senate, that asked leaders not to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Professors, and each echoed the sentiment that they signed the letter because of Kavanaugh’s actions during his hearing, rather than any political leaning or the assault allegations pending against him. “Regardless of the allegations of the professor Ford, he acted in such a way that brings discredit to judges and to justice, and that’s probably the main reason I signed it,” said Robert M. Bloom, professor of law. “‘He said,’ ‘she said’ [was] obviously influential to me, but that wasn’t the reason I signed it. It was the way he acted when he testified.” Patricia A. McCoy, professor of law, signed the letter once it was brought to her attention by Kent Greenfield, professor of law and Dean’s distinguished scholar. But, her concerns had already long been gestating. “I had watched the Kavanaugh testimony and I had previously read some of his opinions,” McCoy said. “Previously, when I had read some of his opinions I had been concerned by the intemperate tone of some of them in which Judge Kavanaugh would go after one of the parties person-

ally, naming them with epithets. ... So at the time when I read that decision that raised an eyebrow. Subsequently, when I saw his testimony after Dr. Ford testified, I was equally concerned at his contemptuous tone towards women sexual assault allegations and towards the senators as well.” Filippa Marullo Anzalone, professor of law, felt compelled to sign the letter because she believed that not only had Kavanaugh showcased a lack of judicial comportment, but that he had lied. “It was the fact that Judge Kavanaugh did not admit that he drank in high school and acknowledge that some bad behavior may have occurred as a result of that drinking—events that perhaps he has trouble recalling,” she said. “People have to take responsibility for their actions. It is a sign of character and integrity. I think that Judge Kavanaugh could have even accomplished some good by such an admission.” Jane Gionfriddo, professor emerita, said that it wasn’t her political disagreements with Kavanaugh, but his actions in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee that left her with no choice but to sign the letter. “I would’ve signed that letter if he was the most liberal judge who supported everything that I personally believe in because it was really his testimony and the stuff that came out around it,” she said. “I was just horrified at his demeanor.” In addition, she echoed McCoy’s sentiment in regards to Kavanaugh’s lack of respect for Senators given the severity of

the allegations against him. “Part of [why I’m upset] is aside from Kavanaugh—I don’t mean this is why I signed the letter—as a woman, this whole process with [Dr. Ford] for me, as a woman, is so difficult, it’s so difficult for every woman I know whether they were sexually assaulted or not,” Gionfriddo said. To her, the problem isn’t that Kavanaugh didn’t have a right to defend himself, it was the manner in which he chose to do it. “I taught a first year law school course and part of it was teaching students to be written advocates, and one of the things I would always tell them is sound objective but be persuasive,” Gionfriddo said. “He had a right to be persuasive … but the way in which he did it was just so un-judge-like.” McCoy was left wondering how Kavanaugh even reached this point. She wasn’t sure how the Trump administration could have vetted the justice completely with outstanding sexual assault allegations against him and took issue with the Republicans on the Judiciary Committee who were “hell-bent” on making sure Kavanaugh was nominated. “I think that it’s highly unfortunate that the majority and the White House were not willing to substitute a more suitable conservative candidate for Justice Kavanaugh,” she said. Greenfield took issue with Kavanaugh on a multitude of levels. His consternation began with how the Republican party has turned the battle into such a “bruising”

one. Beginning with refusing to give Merrick Garland a hearing, Republicans have set new precedents, tearing apart what used to be confirmation norms, according to Greenfield. But in the end, it was Kavanaugh’s deceptive delivery that stuck in Greenfield’s mind as he signed off on the letter. “But once Dr. Ford came forward with her accusations, which I thought were very credible, Judge Kavanaugh was even more deceptive in my view,” he said in an email. “He was affirmatively misleading with regard to his experiences in high school and college, in ways that were simply not believable.” Partisanship was a common thread of concern between each professor. “I have been involved with at least 200 cases before federal and state courts,” said Kari Hong, assistant professor of law. “As you can imagine, I’ve lost a lot of those cases. And those losses—some have been painful, some have been sad, some have made me angry. But never once have I felt cheated. And this is a fundamental principle of how our court system works. People have to feel that they had a fair chance.” Gionfriddo said that Kavanaugh’s decisions will be difficult to accept since he might be subject to further investigation if Democrats regain control of the House of Representatives after the midterm elections. Bloom and McCoy cited ramifications to the law: the fate of abortion, affirmative action, presidential power, and universal

health insurance could be affected by Kavanaugh’s presence on the bench. But for McCoy, the situation is magnified by the Supreme Court’s reputation now potentially coming further into question. “I think there are serious concerns about the reputation of the Supreme Court for impartiality and neutrality,” she said. “It will be up to Justice Kavanaugh to take pains to make sure that he listens to both sides, openly and impartially and renders his decisions and casts his vote in an impersonal manner.” McCoy, Gionfriddo, and Hong emphasized how difficult it was to see Kavanaugh be so disrespectful of Senators, especially considering the severity of the allegations against him. Hong has concerns about how he is going to treat litigators who, for instance, don’t have money or the people who he may feel are inferior to him, when he treated people who were his superiors, Senators, with such disdain. Gionfriddo isn’t sure how citizens will be able to determine if Kavanaugh is acting in the best interests of the country. “I think we saw a glimpse of the real man and I don’t think we’re going to see that glimpse when he’s a Supreme Court justice, so I’m not sure we’ll ever know,” Gionfriddo said. “I do not think we want this kind of a person with a lifetime appointment to the highest court of our land.” Abby Hunt, Jack Miller, and Brooke Kaiserman contributed to this report. n

and the psychology B.S. majors, according to Christianson. The neuroscience major focuses on brain function as a basis for behavior and cognition. The major’s intention is to prepare students for graduate neuroscience studies, as well as entering professional fields such as biotechnology. The psychology majors can still sufficiently prepare students for careers in neuroscience, but are more broad and prepare students for a different variety of careers, according to Christianson. The current majors will remain unchanged and available to students currently enrolled in them. “There was a large turnover in psychology B.A. and B.S. faculty who were interested and studying neuroscience, so our department has tried to emphasize a curriculum that includes neuroscience more prominently,” he said. n

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of contract violation should only have to do with a review of whether former Dean of Students Paul Chebator’s and former Executive Director for Planning and Staff Development Carole Hughes’s interactions with the hearing board that handled Doe’s case were improper. Chebator has retired from the University, while Hughes has become the associate dean for Student Affairs and director of Graduate Student Life. In the past, both sides have cited the plaintiff ’s request for expungement of his record as a primary issue preventing a settlement between the

two parties. BC has said expungement of the disciplinary record is a nonstarter in regard to settlement negotiations, while the plaintiff has cited expungement as the most important element of his requested damages. The plaintiff has also asked for $3 million in reparations. The University has argued in the past that damages cannot be rewarded for emotional distress or reputational harm, limiting the scope to reparations related to the delay in graduation and effect on Doe’s employment opportunities and earnings. n

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experience.” Students who graduate with a neuroscience degree will be able to synthesize research from multiple fields, including psychology, biology, and chemistry, which aligns with BC’s emphasis on helping students connect different disciplines in their studies. “A neuroscience major was never offered at BC, which most likely deterred many prospective students from considering going to school here,” said John P. Christianson, a psychology professor. “So, a couple of years ago, the department agreed to come up with a proposal for a neuroscience program which was approved in May of 2017.” Specificity is what sets the neuroscience major apart from the psychology B.A.

Economics Gets Overhaul Econ, from A1 reclassification emphasizes the direction the department is taking the major in order to make it more valuable for students, Baum said. Based on internal data regarding the Class of 2017 compiled by the Career Center, 52 percent of survey respondents with an economics degree are employed in financial services, consulting, and banking industries. Of the 43 percent of respondents pursuing a master’s degree in graduate school, 43 percent are in STEM programs. Effective in fall 2019, the core requirements for the economics major will include only one semester of a Principles of Economics course, eliminating the two-semester sequence. The number of courses required to graduate with the major will not change—instead, another upper

level elective requirement will be added. Students currently enrolled in the major may still take the two-semester principles courses. Changes to the core curriculum do not have any direct effect on the STEM classification, according to Baum. Additionally, the economics department plans to have a presence in the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, which is scheduled to begin construction in the spring of 2019. The University’s strategic plan identifies several research areas within the institute, including the environment, energy, and public health, where BC can strive to be a leader—economists have a lot to contribute to each of those disciplines, according to Baum. With the reclassification, BC joins Yale, Columbia, MIT and many other institutions who’ve made this change to their economics departments. n

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the measure, as has Bill Mills, BC’s director of community affairs. “Boston College joins neighbors, merchants, and the Boston police in opposing the proposed marijuana dispensary in Cleveland Circle,” Dunn said. “We feel that it is not in the best interests of the community to open a dispensary in Cleveland Circle and

will continue our collective efforts to oppose it throughout the licensing process.” George Haverhais, owner of Resevoir Wine and Spirits, presented a letter on behalf of10 local businesses in Cleveland Circle declared opposition to the dispensary in a letter, according to Universal Hub. Until the sale goes through, though, Mary Ann’s will continue to operate, according to Patch. n

vide o e vidence was found by the police. Doe’s two appeals of his University suspension fell on deaf ears, leading to his lawsuit against BC. The scope of the case will primarily surround whether the lawsuit will center around only the breach of contract violation or go beyond that issue. Specifically, basic fairness claims the plaintiff has made will be up for debate. The University argued in the August joint statement that no basic fairness claims should be up for review. BC has argued that the breach

‘Greater Heights’ Unique by Nature Greater Heights, from A1 features three pillars: competitive excellence, the capital campaign, and athlete formation. To improve competitive excellence, Ellison-Stewart said that growing the annual operating budget to incrementally improve BC’s capabilities in regards to recruiting. There are three funds that can be donated to within the daily operating expenses: the Excellence Fund, the Flynn Fund, and sport specific support. The Excellence Fund provides support to football, men’s basketball, and men’s ice hockey programs—here is where specific funds often aid recruiting measures, which can cover essentially any category of expense but has to be geared toward enticing high-level athletes. The Flynn Fund is directed toward travel, equipment, and apparel expenses. Sport specific donations can be earmarked by donors for any of the 31 sports programs BC offers. The capital campaign will be the largest component of the entire initiative, providing funds that can go to major facilities upgrades. Conte Forum and the Harrington Athletics Village require further upgrades and construction, and the Greater Heights website notes that Olympic sports require major facilities renovations in order to bring those programs up to the level the most competitive institutions in the country set. The final pillar is student formation, which Ellison-Stewart noted required further aligning the athletics program

with the Jesuit values the University holds dear. There are multiple questions EllisonStewart noted athletics is trying to keep on top of in this area. “How are we investing in [students] health and wellness programming?” she said. “How are we investing their academic success and making sure that when they do get to BC that they are able to succeed and pursue whatever major they’re passionate about? And then, how are we supporting their transition upon graduation into the other real world?” Ellison-Stewart stressed that athletics brings the institution together. She credited Doug Flutie’s influence on the college helped solidify BC as a residential campus rather than a commuter one. When donors participate in initiatives such as this one, Ellison-Stewart believes that they’re following in those footsteps to launch BC into a more successful long-term athletic program, finishing the job Flutie, Jared Dudley, Matt Ryan, and others have started on the field. Across the country, such universitywide campaigns are rare. Among BC’s peer institutions, none have run any operation quite like this one. Holy Cross committed to allocating $85 million of its current $400 million capital campaign to athletics. Notre Dame ran a $1.5 billion campaign that ended two years ago, and allocated $84 million to athletics within it. Georgetown put together a $1.67 billion capital campaign with $62 million earmarked for an athletics facility. The SEC is the conference that has

put together more athletics specific campaigns. Alabama has committed to raising $600 million over 10 years—a remarkable number in that it’s twice as much money raised per year as BC, the program with the largest capital campaign in ACC history, is raising. Auburn has put together an incentive-based capital campaign to raise $61.7 million—despite it being a powerhouse, it isn’t searching for nearly as far reaching a campaign as BC has decided to. The largest ACC campaign is in progress, but isn’t a capital campaign solely based around athletics. A whopping $371.8 million is being allocated for endowed scholarships for athletes at Virginia, as well as new facilities and improvements to existing ones. With all this in mind, it’s clear that BC is doing everything to get closer to the financial stratosphere that athletic powerhouses across America currently occupy. The University isn’t capable—yet—of setting an ambitious, single goal of $370 million, but as BC has broken its fundraising into a few different stages, its total expenses rival the NCAA’s most successful members. If the University can fulfill Jarmond’s long-term goals on the field and in its coffers, it’s possible that a feedback loop—with more athletic success comes more donations, and with more donations greater success can be found on the field—could fuel a significant improvement in BC’s standing nationwide. Charlie Power and Jack Miller contributed to this report. n

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Weiskott Brings Medieval Times to Students’ Fingertips By Simran Brar Heights Staff When he’s not grading papers or teaching classes, English professor Eric Weiskott can be found on the internet, trolling “Chaucer Doth Tweet,” the Twitter account dedicated to the 14th-century poet known to some as the father of English literature, and looking at medieval memes to tweet from his own Twitter-verified account. In the past few years, Weiskott has been published in various publications including The Atlantic, The Conversation, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. A string of articles directed at the general public about medieval literature, as well as a lot of attention centering around one of his more well-known pieces,“Millennial Bashing and Medieval Times,” generated enough buzz that Twitter decided to anoint Weiskott with the coveted blue-check mark to signify that he was Twitter-verified. Chuckling as he scrolled through the Chaucer account’s page—which is mainly filled with jokes in Middle English—Weiskott explained how he uses Twitter to help students interact with texts from centuries ago in a modern way. He finds a lot of value in Twitter, viewing it as a powerful network that can be used as a means of connecting people in academia from all over the country, as well as an effective tool that allows his students to take what they learn in his courses and bring the material out into the world. “It’s the language of Chaucer that’s challenging—the culture is distant from us in time and space, and that is definitely a challenge I face, but I love that,” Weiskott said. I love convincing students that Middle English is really fun.” Middle English refers to English of the years 1100 to1450, which is marked by a variety of dialects. It’s similar to Modern English, but is also vastly different, as seen in the first line of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, “Whan that Aprille with his shoures sote / The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote, / And bathed every veyne in swich licour, / Of which vertu engendred is the flour; / Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth.” For those that are skeptical of the extent to which Middle English, a difficult language to conquer, can be amusing, Victoria Ang, MCAS ’20, can quell all fears. Having taken Weiskott’s Introduction to British Literature course, in which she came to appreciate his teaching style, Ang returned in the spring for a challenge in Weiskott’s Middle English

Alliterative Poetry class. “It felt like the stuff we read was literally not in English,” said Ang. “We would have to translate it with a glossary he gave us and match words in the texts we were assigned—which I know sounds boring and specific, but with him it was so much fun and I really enjoyed it.” Weiskott, who grew up in Greenport, N.Y., spent many of his formative years delving into English language and literature in college. He attended Wesleyan University as an undergraduate where he double majored in English and classical civilization. While Weiskott went to college with the intention of majoring in English, he says that the addition of classical civilization happened by “accident,” after he took an interest in Greek and decided to tackle the last few remaining credits for the major. “The summer before I started college I read, or tried to read, Chaucer because my parents had a book lying around and I thought it was kind of fun to try to figure out Middle English, which was the language Chaucer wrote in in the 14th century,” Weiskott said. Following his first attempt at deciphering Chaucer, Weiskott continued to explore medieval literature at Wesleyan, which ultimately solidified his interest in the subject matter. Following his undergraduate studies, Weiskott went on to Yale University where he obtained his P.h.D in English. Upon completion of his P.h.D. and dissertation on Medieval Alliterative Poetry, which went on to become his first book, Weiskott began applying to jobs and was able to obtain his first choice—a position at Boston College. “Boston College is a unique place in that it is a research university that is focused on the undergraduate liberal arts, which is a great combination in my opinion,” said Weiskott. Weiskott said that the BC’s ability to provide resources in the way that large research institutions do—while at the same time keeping the focus on both faculty and funding undergraduate liberal arts education—is one of the biggest factors that drew him here. Now entering his fifth year of teaching, Weiskott continues to retain the same passion and interest in teaching students at BC both about English and the world—and using medieval literature as his vehicle to do so. At BC, Weiskott’s classes have focused on his interests in Chaucer and medieval literature and poetry. He offers a range of courses from Studies in Poetry to Middle English Alliterative Poetry to a class solely

dedicated to analyzing the works of Chaucer—in which students carry around a book the size of their heads and watch movies like Monty Python and A Knight’s Tale to examine topics like medievalism. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, Weiskott is also the director of the Master of Arts Program in the English department. Now, having been in the BC bubble for a few years, Weiskott remarked that the type of student that BC attracts plays a role in why he chose to stay. “I also really like how service-oriented the students are here,” said Weiskott. ‘I find that extremely refreshing and admirable.” Weiskott applauded his students not only for their commitment to their academics, but also their abilities to excel in being well-rounded people with involvement in extracurriculars and service. Admiration and appreciation run both ways between Weiskott and his students. Students like Ang find Weiskott to be an accessible resource in the classroom and beyond. In the case of Ang, who is an economics and English double major, she finds that across the two disciplines, Weiskott was the first professor that she felt she was able to foster a relationship with because of his enthusiasm to work with students oneon-one. She admitted that when she signed up to take his Middle English Alliterative Poetry course, she was wary of the subject material. “Again I didn’t really know what to expect, and like I said my interests are not really focused in older literature, but because the class was with him, I thoroughly trusted that the class would be interesting,” said Ang. Within the classroom, Weiskott quells students’ doubts and fears with his enthusiasm for the subject. Weiskott works hard to connect students to the material that at first seems distant from their modern, iPhonewielding selves, by incorporating modern technology into his classroom. One of his current projects is the development of his website Mapping Chaucer that was built using a special website creator specific to BC, Media Kron. While he and his undergraduate research assistant Francesca Williams have partially created the foundations of the website, filling in the points of Chaucer’s biographical life, Weiskott has left an area of the website blank so that later in the semester his students can fill in the gaps on the map of The Canterbury Tales and contribute. “I saw a chance with this map tour

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Weiskott makes sense of Middle English with a unique, modern take. on tha language. feature to do something different because Chaucer’s life and his writings are not only about England, but they are about Asia, Africa, the entire world,” Weiskott said. His students have also received attention from Genius.com—a digital media site, originally known as “Rap Genius,” in which people can provide annotations to songs and works similar to Chaucer’s. Students are required to annotate portions of The Canterbury Tales for Weiskott’s class, contributing their knowledge to the world wide web to help others learn. Weiskott hopes that helping the students interact with Chaucer’s texts digitally will add another dimension to their understanding of his writings. The digital aspect of the project also allows for the possibility for people beyond BC to view the material and use it as a resource, something that excites Weiskott as he sees that digital media creates a unique opportunity to share work in the humanities. “I really enjoy the Media Kron work because it is collaborative,” he said. “I am one person involved in the project, my students are other people involved in the project. … I’m kind of directing it, but really we are all contributing to the same goal, and I like that.” Tackling Chaucer in a semester is no easy feat, and Weiskott recognizes that. For many of us, a quick glance at Chaucer’s Twitter would be immediately stupefying as one tries to decode tweets like “Kynge Arthur, by Beck Wher yt ys at Ich have one rounde table and sum knightes at home.” Weiskott uses tools like Twitter, Genius. com, and the interactive map to promote interactive learning.

“The texts may challenge an assumption or idea they had before, and maybe they’ll still have that assumption or idea afterwards,” said Weiskott. “But the experience of sort of being challenged, being challenged to read old texts, being challenged to encounter cultures that are not exactly like your own, I think that is really important. In the summer, when he isn’t as consumed by teaching, Weiskott can also be found researching as he prepares his second book on English meter. In this book he hopes to explore the division of the past into medieval and modern through the lens of poetry. While there is always a delicate balance between devoting time to research and time for teaching, Weiskott finds it beneficial to overlap the two since discussions with his students can offer new perspectives or literature that he hadn’t thought of. Weiskott has been at BC a long time, and though some in his situation may waver as to whether they’ll stay in the same place for a while, that is not the case in regard to Weiskott. Here at BC, he feels as if he has found a home in the English department and friends within the faculty and student body, just as many of them feel the same way about him. As he looks forward to the next few years, Weiskott is hopeful in leaving his mark at BC by how he connects with students as well as his integration of digital technology into the way that the humanities are taught on campus.“ I feel like it has been a successful semester when students have encountered something that they never had encountered before and that text or idea or author has made them think a new thought about the world now,” Weiskott said. n

Fifty Years Since the Summer of ’69 and the Society of Jesus By Dan Carroll For The Heights

Finally considered an adult, and ready to work in the real world, college graduates begin an age of excitement and exploration. But in 1969, it was an age of fear. As soon as one graduated college, his draft number could be called, and he would be shipped off thousands of miles away, to Vietnam. Many young men fled north to Canada, while others labeled themselves conscientious objectors and refused to fight. With a low draft number, Rev. Jeffrey Von Arx, S.J. the 2018-2019 Thomas I. Gasson Professor, S.J., decided that, instead of fleeing, it was the perfect time to dedicate his life to Jesus. “When I started college, I was kind of interested in the possibility of working in international relations or foreign service,” Von Arx said. “But then I became more interested in history as a discipline, and I also began to think about becoming a priest and joining a religious order.” One year after he finished his degree in history at Princeton University in 1969, many colleges closed their doors because the students, out protesting, stopped coming. With protests growing around the

country and anti-war sentiment becoming stronger by the day, Von Arx decided that he simply did not want to be involved in the war. He had been considering entering the Society of Jesus, and the circumstances just pushed him to enter the order a year earlier. Von Arx did his two years of Novitiate—which is comparable to undergraduate school for Jesuits—in Syracuse, N.Y., where he learned a simple but crucial lesson that he carried with him his entire life. “[I learned] how important knowledge is in understanding God, your relationship to God, and God’s relationship to the world as revealed by Jesus Christ,” Von Arx said. After completing his time at the seminary, Von Arx had the choice to teach at a Jesuit high school or to attend graduate school for history. “[History] is understanding the collective pasts of the human race, of a particular nation or culture, so that you can understand yourself and the culture or country you were brought up in and make responsible choices about how to move into the future,” Von Arx said. His desire to teach was still strong, but Von Arx decided that he first wanted to

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Next year, Father Jeffrey Von Arx, S.J. will celebrate his 50th anniversary with the Jesuits.

complete a Ph.D. in history, to learn more about different cultures before standing at the front of the classroom to teach students about them. Even prior to his decision to join the Society of Jesus, Von Arx chose to study history at Princeton, not because it was the most lucrative path, but because he was certain there were age-old lessons still to be learned today. “I really value working with a number of my advisers at Yale because they taught me what it was to be a good historian, you know, to do really thorough research, to read everything you could about the topic, and to sit down and think about what you think about the materials you’ve read, the evidence that you’ve read,” Von Arx said. When working toward his Ph.D. at Yale, he focused on 19th-century England and Ireland in addition to church history. These topics, may not seem applicable to today’s world, but Von Arx focused on what lessons could be learned from the people he studied, and he figured out how to apply those lessons to his own life. For one year after the completion of his doctoral work, Von Arx worked at the St.Francis Xavier parish in New York City until he received an offer from Georgetown University to teach. He would go on to spend 16 years there and eventually earned tenure. During his time at Georgetown, Von Arx made a lasting impression. He helped to found the Australian Studies Center at Georgetown, the only one of its kind in the United States. “I got both of the governments interested in supporting it, so it’s still a going proposition,” Von Arx said. “Georgetown is really the only Australian studies center in the United States where you can minor, effectively, in Australian history.” In 1998, Von Arx learned that Fordham University was looking for a new dean of its college of arts and sciences. Based on his time as an administrator at Georgetown, he decided that he could be a good fit in the new role. When asked about what made him a

good candidate for the position, Von Arx laughed. “I sometimes joke that I didn’t do a bad enough job, and so I got identified in other people’s minds that maybe I was someone who could do college administrations,” he explained, but it was clear he was confident in his ability to have a positive impact on the lives of students. Twenty years after his term at Fordham began, Von Arx reflected on his time there happily, describing it as one of his favorite roles. “I really enjoyed the dean’s job because you still have a fair amount to do with students and helping them out, in one way or another,” Von Arx said. As a teacher, he interacted with students every day. His new position allowed him to continue working with students, but also gave him new opportunities, such as working more closely with faculty and setting the direction of the university as a whole. “It’s ironic, in a sense, that as a college dean, you deal with the best students and the students that are really having trouble,” Von Arx said. Along with new responsibilities came the chance for Von Arx to elevate the college of arts in sciences to new heights. “At the Bronx campus, I thought that neither the fine arts or the sciences were as strong as they could and should be and so I worked hard in trying to get new resources and new facilities for both the fine arts and also for the sciences,” he explained. Von Arx’s passion and love for his role at Fordham did not go unnoticed. In 2004, he was named president of the university, a position he would hold until December of 2017. After spending almost 20 years in administrative roles, Von Arx decided it was time to slow down and go back to where he started. “I’ve kind of come full circle,” Von Arx said. He returned to the classroom in 2017 when he was invited to teach at Boston College. He teaches a course in modern church history in the School of Theology and Ministry. In 2018, he was named the

new Gasson Professor, a position that allows him to continue teaching and to focus again on scholarly work, a part of his life he had missed since his time at Georgetown. In addition to the time he spends in the classroom and working on new areas of study, Von Arx has resumed writing and also works with a local parish doing outreach to Catholic faculty at local universities like Harvard. Because Harvard is secular, its faculty have limited opportunities to engage with Catholic contemporaries. Von Arx partnered with St. Paul’s parish to host intellectual and social events for the Harvard faculty. He does so out of the belief that one can appreciate another tradition without being a member. In his book review of Pontius Pilate by Aldo Schiavone, which argues that Pontius Pilate, the judge who condemned Jesus to death in the New Testament, was an agent of Christian salvation, Von Arx echoes this point. “While Pilate might not have believed in Jesus’ mission, he came to accept that he had one, which he understood could be accomplished only through Jesus’ sacrificial death,” he wrote. As his 50th anniversary of joining the Jesuits approaches, Von Arx’s story been guided by a similar theme throughout his journey. At Princeton, not entirely certain he wanted to begin 12 years of schooling, he joined the Jesuits because he was confident in their mission. When confronted with the decision to study history as a discipline or for a salary, he opted for the former, aligning himself wholeheartedly with the Jesuit mission of education. And now at BC, Von Arx is reaching out to academics in Boston who might not agree with his mission, but are at least interested in learning about it. “The question is how are you most effectively going to engage with the political structures and political like, and I think again, dialogue, engagement, participation, and sometimes confrontation,” Von Arx said. n

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things to do in Boston this week

From Wednesday to Friday, Nagakura Ramen will hold a pop-up event in Brookline. Hosted by Ganko Ittetsu Ramen Brookline, the event will serve fresh soup-based chicken and pork ramen, with three flavors: shoyu paitan, shio paitan, and spicy shoyu paitan. Food will be first-come first-serve.

On Friday night, the Museum of Fine Arts will open its doors after hours for its first “Late Nite” event of the year. From 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. visitors are invited to explore the galleries, watch pop-up performances, eat, and dance. Ticekts are $15, and all are welcome to attend.

Next weekend, Boston will host its annual “Head of the Charles” regatta. It is the largest regatta in the world, and will feature more than 11,000 athletes, including boats from Boston College. Races begin at 7:45 a.m. on Saturday morning, and run through 4 p.m. Sunday

New England Chocolate Festival Connects Cacao Producers with Consumers By Isabel Fenoglio Asst. Metro Editor

On Saturday, chocoholics flooded the Boston Center for Adult Education in Arlington for the first New England Chocolate Festival. Visitors entered to explore a makeshift chocolate factory, where they could taste, learn, and interact with chocolate companies and raw cacao producers. The festival was organized by the Fine Cacao and Chocolate Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to identifying, developing, and promoting fine cacao and chocolate, primarily by addressing ethics and quality issues in the supply chain. “We decided to form the organization three years ago to fill the gap in existing services available to cacao producers, the people who grow the raw materials that go on to become chocolate,” explained Carla Martin, founder and executive director of FCCI, and organizer of the festival. The mission of FCCI centers on providing education, and curriculum was developed out of Martin’s own research. She studies the politics of the global chocolate industry, and has conducted field work in West Africa, Latin America, North America, and Europe. “I study the ways that operations, government, NGOs academics, and all of the other stakeholders in the indus-

try interact with each other, and how that changes the outcomes in cacao producers lives,” said Martin. When she’s is not eating or researching chocolate, Martin also works as a lecturer in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Martin’s early research focused on labor conditions in cacao production, but more recently she shifted focus to looking at the “speciality market” for chocolate, which includes companies focused on transparent trade and craftsmanship. All of the companies invited to participate in the festival fall into the category of “speciality market,” and a total of 16 ranging from Brookline to Vermont were featured. The festival also invited cacao producers, who came from all over the world. Almost 30 producers came to Boston, from Brazil, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Mexico, Peru, Thailand, Venezuela, and Vietnam. “Essentially what we are trying to do is flip the script in the way that events like this usually go,” said Martin.” “Festivals like this are usually concentrated on one end of the supply chain: the companies and consumers. We are trying to shrink down that distance and have the people that produce the raw materials available as equal partners in the event,” she

added. Visitors entered straight into the heart of the festival: the chocolate pavilion. Vendors lined the perimeter of the central space, standing behind long, white tables covered in chocolate to sample and buy. In the next room was a small cafe, where festival goers could sit back, sip on hot chocolate, and watch chefs make mouth watering desserts and chocolate creations. But this was just the beginning. On the second floor of the building every room was occupied with a different activity. There was a chocolate escape room, workshop room, tasting classroom, and lecture classroom, where cacao producers and professors led conversations and tastings on all things chocolate. The highlight of the festival, however, was the chocolate sensorium, which served as a miniature deconstructed chocolate factory. “We have always had this dream at our organization to have some kind of chocolate museum exhibit where it would be very interactive and people could go in and taste and touch and just really be involved,” said Martin. In the sensorium, this dream came to life. Visitors were able to see, touch, and taste fresh cacao straight from a tree in ecuador, and watch chocolatiers make fresh chocolate before their eyes. Fresh chocolate dribbled down the chins of those in attendance, and many

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The festival connected vendors from across New England with cacao producers worldwide.

left with pockets full of samples. In total around 700 people turned out to celebrate all things chocolate. Any profit made went directly to FCCI, funding programming with cacao producers. A few hundred tickets were given away to local immigrant organizations, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay, and local school,; as Martin stressed that she wanted to ensure that cost did not pose a limiting factor for people who were interesting in attending. “Our main goal is to try to generate excitement around these different

types of products, and to build community among the cacao producers, companies, and customers,” said Martin. “It is meant to be as much fun as it is educational.” If successful, Martin added that she hopes to make the festival an annual event. “We very purposefully called it the New England Chocolate Festival, rather than the Boston one, because we would love to take it on the road. We certainly don’t think is of interest only to people in the greater Boston area,” she said. n

At Kennedy Institute, BC Alum Honored for Philanthropic Work By Chloe McAllaster Assoc. Metro Editor

Jack Connors Jr., BC ’63, is known throughout Boston as a business leader and philanthropist dedicated to bettering the lives of the city’s residents. On Oct. 4 at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate’s Annual Dinner, he received the Award for Inspired Leadership. The award is given to a figure who demonstrates Kennedy’s passion for service to both community and country, as exemplified by his career in the Senate and the mission of the

institute itself. Since 2015, the Kennedy Institute has served as a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public on the role of the Senate and fostering civic engagement. Interactive educational activities, exhibits, and a wide range of programs held throughout the year enable the institute to engage “students and visitors in a conversation about the essential role each person plays in our democracy and in our society,” according to a press release. The Annual Dinner is an event that helps fund the educational pro-

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Jack Connors Jr. led the fundraising campaign to found the Edward M. Kennedy Institute.

grams that make the late Senator Ted Kennedy’s vision for the institute possible. Nearly 350 guests attended the dinner, including prominent figures in the philanthropic, educational, medical, and political spheres. Along with Victoria Kennedy; Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, BC ’09; Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker; and Paula Johnson, the president of Wellesley College, all gave remarks on the role Connors has played in shaping both the Kennedy Institute and the greater Boston community. Connors is a founding partner of Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos, Inc., now one of the top 20 advertising firms in the United States, but his achievements extend far beyond the corporate realm. In 2008, Kennedy sought Connors’s assistance in making the. Kennedy Institute a reality. Connors spearheaded fundraising efforts for the formation of the institute, working with what Victoria Kennedy called “the precision of a military campaign.” Besides raising $100 million to found the institute, Connors has served as an active participant and leader in all areas of Boston’s philanthropic community. According to the event program, he served as chairman of the Board of Directors of Partners HealthCare System for 16 years before becoming chairman emeritus in 2012.

Connors has also been a member of the Boston College Board of Trustees for over 30 years and is a member of the Board of Dean’s Advisors for the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. All the speakers mentioned Camp Harbor View. According to the event program, late Mayor Thomas Menino enlisted the help of Connors in devising a solution to address the rising rate of violence among teens in Boston’s underserved communities. Connors raised the money necessary to fund a summer camp on Long Island in Boston Harbor, which opened its doors in July 2007. Walsh spoke about his experience working with Connors in an effort to address homelessness in Boston early in his administration. After only a year, the task force had worked to end chronic veteran homelessness in the city and is now working to alleviate all chronic homelessness. “It was more than just funding with Jack,” Walsh said. “It was the experience of how to get things done. It was relationships. It was mentorships. It was trust. That’s what Jack Connors and who Jack Connors is.” In his remarks, Baker recalled the first time he heard the name Jack Connors—40 years ago while fundraising for the Big Brother Association as a sophomore in college. He remembers

struggling with his fellow members to even raise $8 but being reassured by someone at Big Brother that as soon as Connors got on the phone things would change. “The Big Brother Association of Boston’s fundraising efforts were a bunch of young whippersnappers like me who couldn’t raise money to save their life, a few people who felt sorry for us, and Jack Connors just dialing for dollars,” Baker said. To Baker, this first encounter with Connors is a testament to his passion for service even before he had established himself as a successful businessman. In his acceptance speech, Connors spoke to the legacy of Kennedy, particularly his dedication to serving the people he represented and ability to come to bipartisan solutions. “Ted Kennedy devoted his life to others, and he did it with a sense of style and a sense of humor,” Connors said. “I don’t think he’d recognize the Senate today, a place that he so deftly used as a place from which to do good,” he said. “He worked his magic—and it was magic—with a spirit of positivity and an enthusiasm that was infectious. He worked hard to make things better for people, and he enjoyed virtually every minute of it.” n

Boston Book Festival Celebrates 10 Years, Expands to Roxbury By Isabel Fenoglio Asst. Metro Editor

Book lovers braved the rain and made their annual pilgrimage to the 10th Boston Book Festival on Saturday morning. The festival kicked off with a “morning dance party” led by Radha Agrawal, founder of Daybreaker, a company that hosts early morning raves and yoga sessions, and featured music by Yanina Johnson, a student at the Berklee College of Music. By midafternoon the sky cleared, and bookworms flooded to Copley Square Park. A line of white tents stretched across the perimeter of the park, where 69 exhibitors held activities and sold books to those in attendance. To sustain hungry festival goers, food trucks from the likes of Zinnek-

en’s Waffles, Chameleon Cold Brew, and Bon Me lined the street. The street fair featured exhibitors ranging from independent publishers and literary magazines to performance companies and art organizations, and each vendor made its presentation interactive and unique. 826 Boston, a nonprofit youth writing and publishing organization, had a robot-building station and notebooks inspired by Mad Libs for children and their families to fill out. At the front of their booth they sold copies of books of short stories and poems, written and published by its students. 826 publishes one of these books every year, and each has a specific theme. The theme for this year’s book is mystery. Across the street from the park there was a wedding at Trinity Church,

and the bride and groom stepped out to take pictures in the festival. In addition to the street fair, events and lectures were held in locations scattered throughout the city all day long. A total of 275 authors were featured at the festival this year, and visitors packed nearby churches and the Boston Public Library to hear authors ranging from Kate DiCamillo, author of Because of Winn-Dixie and The Tale of Despereaux, to Tayari Jones, author of Silver Sparrow and An American Marriage. But the festival extended far beyond Copley Square, stretching all the way to East Boston, and for the first time this year, Roxbury, Mass. The goal behind this was to increase the accessibility of the festival to all Boston neighborhoods.

“We livestreamed a session from Copley and had some authors go to the locations who gave presentations,” said Piehl. “We also showcased local authors in East Boston, and partnered with a lot of really wonderful cultural organization in Roxbury’s Dudley Square neighborhood,” explained Piehl. “Every year we capture information from attendees,” said Norah Piehl, deputy director of the festival. “Things like what kind of sessions they enjoyed but also where they came from, whether from outside of Massachusetts or inside the city. We noticed that a couple of Boston neighborhoods were not very well represented among our attendee pool.” An estimated 25 to 30,000 people showed up in Copley, and several hundred visited the festival in East Boston

and Roxbury. But as far as how the festival can grow, Piehl said the focus now is to continue to strengthen relationships with the Roxbury and East Boston communities. “It’s definitely a lot of work to pull off these three different festivals in three different neighborhoods in the same day, but it enabled us to do really cool things,” she said. “It allows our authors to get more exposure to people across the city, which I think is really important.” “It’s very gratifying to see the active reading going on at the festival each year,” said Piehl. “Reading is such a solitary pursuit, but on this day becomes a communal activity, and a celebration of particular authors, genres, and also the whole idea of reading in general. And to see people coming together around that is very gratifying.” n

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Econ as STEM Provides International Students Beneficial Opportunities

This summer, Boston College reclassified the economics major as a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) program and has renamed the program econometrics and quantitative economics (EQE). To supplement this decision, the department has also decided to slightly alter the structure of the program’s curriculum. In the fall of 2019, the two-semester sequence, Principles of Economics: Micro (ECON 1131) and Macro (ECON 1132), will become a one-semester course. To maintain the same number of required credits, however, another upper-level elective will be added.

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Logically, it makes sense that economics would be considered a STEM program. Many principles and methods taught in STEM concentrations, such as statistics and data analysis, are also necessary for the study of economics—BC’s economics curriculum requires at least one econometrics course, a statistics course, and multiple labs and electives that utilize quantitative methods related to data analytics. One of the primary goals of this shift, however, is to benefit international students. About 50 percent of international undergraduate students and over 80 percent of international graduate students study econom-

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ics, according to Christopher Baum, chair of the economics department. This change could have major positive implications for international students, who might be underserved by the current structure of the economics department compared to domestic students in regard to post-graduate career searches. With a STEM degree, international students can extend their visas for up to 24 months with their involvement in optional practical training programs. This will provide them with a greater ability to remain in the United States post-graduation and further explore American career opportunities.

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Deflating Our Self-Importance At Boston College, our containment

teach its students the value of service,

plifies this attitude of self-concern—as

social justice, and compassion. Given

human beings, our thoughts tend to

the popularity of service organizations

follow our gaze, so, if we cannot see be-

on campus, I think that our school has

yond Bapst and Alumni Stadium, then

succeeded in cultivating a common

that is where the majority of our mental

desire to give back. In examining my

energy will settle. It is all too easy, at 18

original question, however, one cannot

to 22 years old, to forget that there is an

help but wonder if this altruistic spirit

yourself is one of the rare virtues of

entire world beyond campus, never-

is entangled with the mere hunger for

the college experience. Students have

mind beyond the gates of our individual

self-satisfaction. Are we truly striving

long been advised, by extended family

minds.

to make a difference, or are we merely

Shannon Lyons coco - It might be a kids’ movie, but the film has plot twists that would make Law & Order: SVU proud. When Miguel slowly turns into a skeleton as he’s stuck in the land of the dead, you get this unexpected Back to the Future vibe. The coolest part, though, is the amination. FIrst of all, the detail on the skeletons are crazy. If you’re really attentive, you can notice the engraved carvings on their faces, the patterns that paint their skulls. And the spirit animals? So cool. But eventually you also might notice that the skeletons have eyelids. At that point, though, you won’t be able to stop thinking about them and how creepy it would be if they had no eyelids. diffusers - Get yourself a diffuser if you want your room to smell like goodness and serenity. when you don’t leave your room all day - Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was a girl, and this girl was kind of a spaz. After a particularly stressful threeday week, she woke up on Saturday morning to the dreariest, coldest, rainiest image outside her window. While her roommates rallied in anticipation for a football game that she’s sure was particularly awful to spectate, the girl remained enveloped in her bed, surrounded by a cocoon of obnoxiously large throw pillows. Her roommates left, and she was alone. Still in her pajamas, she migrated from bed to couch and back again every few hours for the rest of the day. It was perfect. 69

The ability to focus primarily on

members and self-help magazines alike, that “your college years are your time to be selfish”—to explore your interests, to

baked chips - There’s something about a baked chip that isn’t quite as satisfying as a regular potato chip. It’s never as crisp. It’s always a weird shape. It’s never going to be folded, which is objectively the best chip always. I can find nothing positive about baked chips that regular chips don’t already have.

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If we don’t open these gates, however, we put ourselves at great risk. I am not arguing that we need to

aiming to add one more bullet point to our resumes? The answer, in my opinion, lies

“find yourself.” Certainly, this is all true

be more politically or socially aware,

somewhere in between, and that’s okay.

to some extent, but at what point does

rather, that we must stop behaving as

As human beings, we have a natural

self-focus cross the threshold into self-

though our personal affairs are the most

impulse to look out for ourselves and to

absorption and pure narcissism?

significant, consequential events in all

better our own self-image. To suppress

of history. In reality, nobody cares about

this innate quality would be to deny

“iGeneration” is a headache-inducing

the three exams you have to study for

our own personhood. I think that our

cliché at which most young people im-

next week, your relationship problems

goal as students should not be to stop

mediately roll their eyes. As students,

are not all that interesting, and everyone

thinking about ourselves altogether, but

we’re tired of adults insisting that our

and their brother is looking for an

rather, to develop a sense of peripheral

greatest concern is how many likes

internship for next summer.

vision—to become aware of the 8,999

The claim that millenials are the

we receive on Instagram or how many

This isn’t to say that we should not

students walking beside us.

brands we can flaunt in one day. These

listen to one another. In fact, I think we

hyperbolic statements reduce an entire

would benefit from listening to each

published in 2017, author Tim Elmore

population of people to a stereotype

other more and giving our own voices

writes, “Among the many reasons for

that most college students neither fit

a rest. There is something strangely

the rise in narcissism today is the notion

nor identify with.

empowering about the idea that, as

that a student feels like a mere number;

individuals, we aren’t all that important.

that they aren’t special after all.”

There is a subtle distinction between

In a Psychology Today article

mere vanity and self-importance, and

In the rat race to prove oneself, both

in my opinion, it is the latter that we

academically and socially, it can be

must be significant, however. You will

struggle with most as college students.

incredibly refreshing to step back and

probably never be the most “important”

It’s not that we think we are an incred-

reflect on one’s smallness.

person in the room, but to be standing

ibly bright and remarkably talented de-

By recognizing that our personal

To be special does not mean you

in the room, wherever that may be—or

mographic—it’s simply that we think too

obligations are no more important

on the stage or in the classroom or out

much about ourselves and the gravity of

than those of our neighbor, we lift an

on the soccer field—proves that you are

our individual collegiate experiences.

enormous weight off our own shoulders.

a part of something larger than yourself.

Suddenly, it becomes clear that the

Your personal to-do list may have no

college that lends the collective student

audience we’re so desperately trying to

significance in the grand scheme of

body this myopic, inward-facing lens—

impress was never paying attention to us

things, but your infinitesimal role in

our time at school is limited to four

in the first place. On BC’s campus alone,

the student body grants you a sense of

years, so we often find ourselves inflat-

there are over 9,000 individual “perfor-

meaning, and it is meaning that makes

ing the importance of every semester,

mances” being played—9,000 stories

for a good life.

complaining that we don’t have enough

being lived out, 9,000 students trying to

hours in the day, greedily grasping at

navigate their unique path, and the truth

moments as though they were precious

is, most people are just focused on the

items on sale.

ground under their own feet.

Perhaps it is the finite nature of

Shannon Lyons is an op-ed columnist for The Heights. She can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

Political Participation Needs Passion

Anna Long when you actually have to leave your room - This story, however, does not have a happy ending. The girl eventually found herself in a serious predicament. Having had a bagel for breakfast and a large bag of pretzels with peanut butter from her emergency snack stash for lunch, she hadn’t left her room at all for any meals, which she considered her biggest feat. Dinner, however, would unfortunately have to be different. There was no more food in her room that she could pretend was a meal. As the clock ticked and nighttime approached, her stomach grumbled. No matter how hard she tried to fight it, she needed to do something about that final meal of the day. Thus, the extended stretch of time during which she hadn’t left her room ended, bringing with it all of her satisfaction from fulfilling her regular lethargic inclinations.

As a Jesuit institution, BC strives to

within the bubble of campus likely am-

It’s July of 2016, and President Barack Obama has just mentioned Donald Trump during an address at the DNC. The room, filled to the brim with waving mini flags and liberals who’ve spent the past two years alternating between laughing at Trump’s audacity and being terrified of the future, is suddenly alive with boos and thumbs pointing down in the air, and the president sighs. This is the problem. Half of the Americans who these politicians represent won’t even vote on Nov. 6, but they’ll be the first to lament the result of the election on the morning of Nov. 7. Actually, according to PBS Newshour, only about 58 percent of registered voters turned up to vote in the 2016 election, yet I am confident that 100 percent of Americans have an opinion of some sort on the result of said election. Let’s be real, politics isn’t an enjoyable topic. It’s the forbidden fruit of the dinner table: the line in the sand between what’s acceptable to discuss in public and in private. Political engagement has gained a negative connotation as parties have become increasingly polarized, but voting doesn’t have to be about politics. For those who are not fascinated by the idea of Congress or in awe of presidential power, voting is allowed to simply be about passion. We may not all have the drive to pay attention to what’s happening on Capitol Hill, but we all have some capacity for passion. Some of us saw Interstellar once and now look to the skies while walking between classes and dream of the day when NASA is well-funded enough to truly dive into space exploration. You know how that happens? Voting. Some of us are tired of being marginalized on a daily basis and wish the law would follow the culture and become more inclusive. You know how that happens? Voting. Some of us want our local movie theater to stay in business, for the national park we visited as children to be around for

our own kids, for dependable health care to be the standard rather than the exception. We want everything to change, and we want everything to stay the same. Regardless, the only way for any of these things to come to fruition is by voting. Nothing changes unless we make it change, and the people willing to make those changes are at an impasse until they truly know what we as a society care about. The midterm elections are drawing nearer, and I fear that we have yet to learn from our mistakes. Currently, only about 64 percent of Americans are polling as “certain to vote” in the midterms, according to The Washington Post. Let’s see if we can raise

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

- Margaret Mead

that number, shall we? As college students, we hold a unique perspective: not yet fully affected by the economic decisions of the government concerning housing projects and tax breaks on a daily basis, but more affected than most when it comes to social decisions. We live on a campus composed of all types of people. You may not be bothered by a SCOTUS decision made concerning a case in Colorado or a sex-based discrimination suit, but chances are someone in your philosophy, math, or chemistry class is. The American philosopher T.M. Scanlon—or in a more relevant example: Kristen Bell in The Good Place—raised a quintessential question: What do we owe each other? That is the very question you are choosing to answer when you don’t vote, and when you do. It is essentially what you are considering when you choose whether to participate in this country’s government for the sake of the people around you. We’re taught voting and politics as a whole is an individual phenomenon. Don’t share your party affiliation,

don’t be vocal about what you believe. But political participation is at its core about community. What do we want for ours? For our planet? For our neighbors and friends and grandparents? And most importantly, how do we make that happen? Usually I’m not an overly political person. You’re more likely to find me crying in a movie theater at Bradley Cooper’s singing voice than rallying on the State House steps. But I care about certain things just as much as most people. For me, gender equality matters. The environment matters. We all matter, and in recent years the importance of political engagement has simply become too significant to ignore. The #MeToo movement has fundamentally changed the way we view sexual assault, yet Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court just this past weekend in spite of allegations concerning that very topic. The banning of plastic straws was nothing short of a sensation over the summer, but the United States remains one of the only countries in the world not committed to the 2015 Paris Agreement. We’ll all toss a few quarters in a man’s empty guitar case beside the Park Street T stop, but the Department of Housing and Urban Development still estimates there are 554,000 homeless people living in the United States. Felicity Jones, playing Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the On The Basis of Sex trailer, said it best: “Changing the culture means nothing if the law doesn’t change.” The law and the political swing of things only changes if we tell it to do so. Voting is the singular most important form of political participation because it ensures that America remains a democracy by the people and for the people. I’m not demanding that you change your major and run for student government. I am, however, suggesting that you figure out what you are passionate about, make an effort to be informed, and vote accordingly. In short, Obama’s response to that DNC crowd almost three years ago is still the best way to put it: When there’s something you don’t agree with in this country, “don’t boo, vote!”

Anna Long is an op-ed columnist for The Heights. She can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

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The Benefit of Fear Kate Colombo Boo! Did I scare you? It’s October, and, with Halloween right around the corner, everyone knows that it’s spooky season. You might be getting yourself into the Halloween spirit by enjoying your favorite pumpkin-flavored beverages and sweets, putting up decorations, or planning your costume. And that’s all great, but the best way to get into the spirit of the season is to give yourself a good scare. It’s called “Spooktober” for a reason! It’s the perfect time to feel a little fear. Fear is often a learned behavior, and it’s necessary for survival—it’s how we keep ourselves alive and away from things that we know will harm us. When experienced from a position of safety, however terrible it might seem, fear can be a beneficial emotion and even … kinda fun? The first major benefit of experiencing fear from a safe distance and with a sense of control is catharsis, or the releasing of painful emotions in

“...watching a short horror film reminds me that I’m not getting eaten by a monster or haunted by a creepy doll.” order to feel relief. Take, for example, watching a scary movie: You deliberately put yourself in a position to experience fear, dread, and tension, or you’re just trying to creep yourself out. Experiencing these emotions becomes enjoyable because you are still aware that you’re safe and fully in control of the situation. You can fully immerse yourself in those feelings but you know that none of it is real and that you can turn the movie off whenever you want. Feeling safe and in control enables you to work through the fear, the dread, the tension, and get to that feeling of relief at the end of the movie, with no risk to you. It’s a win-win. Similarly, spooky, fear-inducing stuff is a great source of distraction and excitement. I mean, who doesn’t love a good ghost story? Not to mention, it’s hard to be stressed out about midterms during those 20 minutes you spend shrieking at a haunted house, and there is considerable value in that momentary neglect. When we experience things that get the adrenaline pumping, we have made time to deliberately excite ourselves and release the nervous energy we tend to build up as we go about our lives. By giving ourselves more room to enjoy the ordinary, we can appreciate our normal days more because we are allowed to be excited. We don’t need to make our actual lives more dangerous or frightening to feel exhilarated—we can easily freak ourselves out from the comfort of our living rooms. Aside from being entertaining and cathartic, like all forms of media, the bone-chilling and blood-curdling films so present at this time of year offers us something else: perspective. Perspective allows us to understand things in context, and recognize the inconsequentiality of most of our problems. While I may mourn the forthcoming onslaught of exams (can you tell I’m a little concerned?), watching a short horror film helps to remind myself that I’m not getting eaten by a monster or haunted by a creepy doll. Little blessings like that make it easier to get through the semester, and it’s worth it to give myself a good fright if it helps me get through the rest of the day. Ultimately, while fear is a feeling we tend to stray from (unless you’re a big fan of horror already), it’s worthwhile to experience it—from a safe distance. With that in mind, I recommend taking full advantage of the spookiest time of year: Go watch a scary movie, visit a haunted house, or tell your favorite creepy campfire stories with your friends. But most importantly remember to scare the bejeezus out of yourself! Happy Halloween!

Kate Colombo is an op-ed columnist for The Heights. She can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

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The Power of Theatre: From Entertaining to ‘Inspiring Radical Change’ Parent, this year’s Monan Professor in Theatre Arts, talks about his passion for theatre and pursuit of racial equality. By Catherine Levine For The Heights Long before he was selected as this year’s Monan Professor in Theatre Arts at Boston College, 9-year-old Maurice Emmanuel Parent walked into his K-8 Catholic school auditorium to see a performance by the drama club. The production was The Music Man, and he had secured front row seats. Little did he know, he would soon discover an all-consuming passion for musical theatre that would shape the trajectory of his education for the rest of his life. Once the curtains were raised and the lights dimmed, Parent thought, I don’t know what this is, but I want to be in it. And that was that. The following year, Parent joined the very same drama club. He was eager not only to become a part of the program that made him fall in love with theatre, but to become the kind of actor that would make someone in the audience feel the same way he did the year before. As Parent continued his education, however, it became evident that he excelled in the math and science disciplines. Although he was still acting in school-affiliated clubs, Parent had not yet gotten a chance to explore theatre in a classroom setting. When it came time to apply for college, his mother looked him square in the face and said, “You’re not going to major in theatre, right?” Parent had attended an engineering magnet public high school, and his mother had always dreamed of him becoming an engineer. And so, Parent entered Carnegie Mellon not as a theatre major, but with a focus in engineering and business. Carnegie Mellon houses one of the most prestigious voice conservatories, which catered directly to Parent’s passion for music and theatre. The conservatory professors, however, don’t normally accept students who aren’t in theatre majors. By chance, Parent met one of the professors through another connection, not knowing he taught in the conservatory. The professor decided to take Parent on as his only non-major student. Once Parent began taking voice lessons and dancing classes, the fire of his passion for musical theatre was reignited. His acting professor told him, “You never stop learning and should always push yourself to grow.” This guidance rang true for Parent, as he said he didn’t truly get a sense of himself as an actor until graduate school. After Parent graduated from Carnegie Mellon, his voice instructor was asked to produce a small musical with Gardner and Wife Productions that he could bring to Malaysia, for which he hired Parent and five of his peers. Although the 24-hour

time difference made it difficult to contact his family—Parent had never been that far away from home before—the distance was instrumental in figuring himself out as an actor in a professional setting. In contrast to his undergraduate experience of text-based introductory acting classes, in graduate school, Parent focused on discovering his style of acting and finding the humanity within the characters he played. Now, one of the first questions Parent asks himself when looking at a play is “What are they fighting for and how can I relate to it?” “I have to brute my imagination and find true things to connect to the imagined circumstances of the character I’m taking on,” he said. Parent moved to New York City after graduate school, where he worked anywhere from three to five jobs at a time, varying from working in box offices, cater waitering, dancing in star promos, and even portraying a singing carrot on a children’s television show. Pursuing a career in theatre, Parent had to be ready to drop everything at any point for a role that could be miles away. Parent reached an age where he was beginning to tire of the hustle-bustle of New York and craved a sense of stability. Upon getting a chance to join the Boston Theatre Works, Parent eagerly accepted. There he starred in the play Angels in America, a performance he later won an award for. “The theatre company was nonprofit arts, meaning that the budget was slashed,” he said. “They were almost on the edge of closing despite the show selling out like hot cakes every night.” To rectify this, the actors had to perform tasks beyond their payroll. They assumed roles apart from the characters they were assigned, such as launderers who washed costumes and stage managers who positioned props. “It was a mess, but it was amazing,” said Parent. “You do it purely for the love of theatre.” Parent’s favorite role, however, was his time spent as Donkey in Shrek at Wheelock Family Theatre. At the time, he was teaching young children at the Martin Luther King Jr. School, one of whom had gone through tragedy in his family. Parent started a GoFundMe and raised enough money to pay for the class’ bus and tickets to come see the show. After they got back, the children’s school teacher had them write thank you cards—the same child drew a picture of Parent as Donkey, surrounded by coloredin stars, portraying a clear love for the production. “I framed it, and I put it on my desk ’til this day,” he said. “That was my favorite part

of acting—knowing I could be apart of that experience for him and the other kids.” Expanding his theatrical pursuits in Boston, Parent combined his passion for theatre with his pursuit of racial equality. He founded The Front Porch Arts Collective, a theatre company led by people of color, and now works as its executive director. The inspiration behind the theatre company came when Parent saw the production Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, featuring an all-black, mainly female cast. It made him wonder what could be possible with a theatre company similarly dedicated to diversity that ran all-year long. “Our mission is to create a home for black and brown artists and increase the representation of people of color in leadership roles,” Parent said. “Theatre on stage is becoming more diverse, but who is running it? Who owns the company? Who is on the board? The diversity of culture needs to be reflected in the diversity of leadership of these things.” Parent has been working with Dawn Meredith Simmons, the artistic director for the Porch, from the beginning. Simmons first met Parent 13 years ago while he was working on Ragtime at New Repertory Theatre. Over the past decade, Simmons has seen a myriad of his performances—ranging from dramatic roles such as King Edward to musical and comedical works on the stages of Huntington. A few weeks ago, the Actor Shakespeare Project opened Macbeth for its fall 2018 season, which marked the first time Simmons and Parent would be working together as director and actor. Since opening the Porch, Simmons has noticed Parent’s passionate dedication to its mission to increase representation on stage and behind the scenes. She has seen his strong work ethic, as he takes on multiple projects at one time, and finds him to be a driving force at the Porch. “He has a big heart and a great business mind,” Simmons said. “Because so many people love, respect, and admire him as an actor and thinker—someone whose voice matters and that you want at the table while making decisions—it lends wonderful credibility to our organization and the work that we’re trying to do.” Parent will now be making his directorial debut in a coproduction that Lyric Stage and the Porch are putting on called Breath and Imagination. “I can’t think of anyone better to tackle this piece,” she said. “He’s one of our premier musical theatre actors. To have him helm this project is a no brainer.” The experience he gained from the Porch helped Parent realize his dual interest in teaching and acting. Parent became a professor at Boston University and Tufts University, and more recently has found a

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Parent teaches a musical theatre class at BC, which will end with a big performance. home at BC. In order to submit his name to become a Monan Professor in Theatre Arts, he had to establish what he would be concentrating on during the year: musical theatre and professional development. After arriving at BC and meeting with the students, Parent discovered the range of projects he could take on with the Monan budget. He soon tripled the number of things he had originally planned to do. Parent is using part of the funds to schedule headshots for students to use once they graduate, preparing them for auditions. “There’s a lot of resources right around here,” Parent said. “I’m not going to dictate what future Monans will do, but you got this pot of money and kids that could be more fit for the opportunities around them. BC does a great job of accessing alumni. We need to take it one step further by looking at the resources around us and seeing how can we tailor it to fit the students needs.” Parent believes that for any future actor, it’s important to know what kind of artist he or she wants to be. There are students that want to hit New York City after graduation and others that want to make art in Venezuela. The question Parent believes an actor should ask oneself is: “Do you want to be the kind of artist that will land yourself on Broadway, study theatre for social change in activist theatre, write your own [work], or something else?” Reflecting on his experience in auditions, Parent has come to understand that so much of the theatre business makes it seem like the choice isn’t in the actor’s hands. While actors can’t choose to be cast in a production, they can choose to show up, be prepared, work hard, and structure their lives to make connections and secure auditions.

“I wish I knew that the people behind the table want you to be good,” he said. “I would walk into the space thinking, ‘I have to impress them.’ You have to be you—one that’s practiced, warmed up, and is professional—but that’s all you can do. Have fun and don’t forget that you love it and you do it because you love it.” Although it’s only been six weeks, Parent is already enjoying teaching his musical theatre class, open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. The students are assigned different songs and roles, which they perform and receive feedback on, working toward a big performance at the end of the semester. Parent is finding BC students to be intellectually curious and ready for dialogue. Parent hopes to eliminate the stigma put on musical theatre as an unprofessional form. Instead, he feels that musical theatre actors have more tools at their disposal to manage. “You just have to be in the room,” he said. “You can hear about these amazing performances, but you will never have the same experience as someone in that space.” With his experience teaching in a K-8 school and college setting, Parent has met students who wish to pursue theatre, and those that have no interest. Whatever your ambitions are, Parent encourages everyone to take an acting class at some point. “To me, theatre is a conversational time where you’re in a space together with an actor and audience and you’re sharing the same breath—that’s what makes it more powerful than a movie or TV,” Parent said. “You’re actually seeing people go through something in front of you. Theatre can do anything from entertain to inspiring radical change. That is the power of the craft.” n

Canstruction Raises Over 61K Cans of Food at Art Competition

On Oct. 6, 21 teams gathered to build structures out of only canned foods for the competition in its 23rd year. By Keely Dickes For the Heights Canstruction Boston raises hunger awareness in a creative way: teams of engineers, designers, architects, and university students create structures using only canned food. For this year, the 23rd in which the competition has taken place, the theme is Heroes vs. Villains. The purpose of the competition is not only to appreciate the ingenuity and artistic beauty of the structures, but also to give back to the community, as Merrimack Valley Food Bank’s largest single donation. In the spirit of this mission, builders must use primarily cans or packaged foods—no adhesives, glass containers, or supports thicker than a quarter inch are allowed. Canstruction Boston began in 1995 as a chapter of the original event, which started in New York City in 1993. South Station housed three to four structures that year, and since then the event has grown—with 29 participating last year

alone. For the past seven years, Boston Society of Architects (BSA), the Boston Properties, and Canstruction Boston have partnered to make the BSA Space and Atlantic Wharf the assembly location. The year’s theme is advertised around May, giving teams a month to submit their Call for Entry. The current space has room for 31 structures—teams are selected first-come first-serve up to this cap. Once admitted, spots are assigned based on the specific demands of the structure. “Some need electricity, some want to only be viewed from the front,” said Kerry Heckman, chair of Canstruction Boston. This year’s 21 teams gathered on Oct. 6. for build-out day, where they brought their months-long plans to fruition. Each team can only have five people working on the structure at one time, for reasons of fairness as well as safety, and spots are limited to 10 feet cubed. Applications are creative: In “The Hero Sandwich” pea bags are stacked to form lettuce leaves, in “Cameron the Fireman” wire holds water

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bottles in hose formation, and in “The incrEDIBLE” can labels reveal baby JackJack and the Incredibles symbol from a distance. Curved arms, suspended features, and clever supports demonstrate that they are also a feat of engineering. Voting was in session from Sunday after build-out day until Wednesday at promptly 1 p.m. Anyone can vote through the Facebook album for the People’s Choice Award, tallied by the number of likes each structure gets. Director’s Choice, selected by chairs Heckman and Anna Luciano, and Honorable Mention are local awards. Awards for Best Use of Labels, Best Meal, Structural Ingenuity, Most Cans, and Best Original Design were decided Tuesday by a team of judges and then submitted virtually to the international competition. Amy Pessia, director of Merrimack Valley Food Bank, has the final word on Best Meal. This is the healthiest option. Heckman and Luciano also incorporate judges with an inside look. “We had a couple teams that unfortunately had to drop out, and we reached out to them and asked them if they would like to be judges,” said Heckman. “Last year we had people crawling under structures where they could see how they were built.” This year “The Red Queen—Off with their Lids!” by Arup + Gensler won both Best Original Design and People’s Choice, at 447 likes. “RUUN! It’s CANzilla!” by AnnBeha Architects + Thornton Tomasetti won Structural Ingenuity and Most Cans with 7,004 cans. “Wile E. CANyote” by Shepley Bulfinch took Best Meal, and Best Use of Labels went to “The incrEDIBLE” by Arrowstreet. These creations will proceed on to the next round. “Groot Out Hunger” by Steffian Bradley Architects got Honorable Mention and “Can’s Greatest Villain,

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The competition theme was Heroes vs. Villains—this structure won Best Use of Labels. Hunger’s Strongest Hero” by Prellwitz Chilinksi Associates is Director’s Choice. Canstruction Boston raised 61,225 cans of food this year. This donation lasts for at least a year, because all participants must buy their food new, whereas other donated food may be expired or will expire soon. This allows Merrimack Valley to be strategic with the donation to fit the needs of the people they serve. Deconstruction day is Oct. 27, near Thanksgiving and the holidays—peak donation time for many people and organizations. “Everyone does a canned food drive,” said Luciano. In contrast, few think of the hungry when they are out enjoying summer. This is where Canstruction’s donation comes

into play. “The really big thing is kids are in school all day long, and in the summer these kids are home and now their parents are struggling to feed them three times a day,” said Heckman. Once donated to Merrimack, the food reaches 22 cities through food pantries, kitchens, summer programs where people pack meals for kids, and more. The energy in the air as teams bring their heroes and villains to life is not one where they have forgotten the primary purpose of their work. “You go downstairs, and our food fills the entire lower level,” said Heckman. “And the teams all understand that, and they know why they’re doing it.” n

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Five years ago, the sports blog Grantland did a story on Kevin Kelley, a high school football coach wrestling with the bounds of reason—Kelley’s team never punted, never attempted to return punts, and only attempted onside kicks. In the eyes of conventional wisdom surrounding the game of football, Kelley was very much the odd man out. For most people, a mindset of when to punt or go for it is very clear. There aren’t a lot of blurred lines or general confusion. In recent years, however, college football and NFL coaches loosened up and began moving toward a less conservative approach. Perhaps most surprising—in a very positive shift—is the fact that Boston College football head coach Steve Addazio is part of the movement. Addazio, notorious in years past for an offense that is especially conservative and often finds itself in third-and-long situations, opted to go for it on fourth down four separate times against Louisville on Saturday, finding success twice. He’s already kept the offense on the field to go for it on fourth down 18 times through seven games, numbers that put the Eagles on track to make 30 attempts by the end of the season. That would replicate last year’s mark that was good for seventh in the country, and it would be a nearly 30 percent increase in attempts from 2016. Addazio is one of just several coaches that have embraced going for it more often. Backed up by analytics and numbers that have said for years that conventional wisdom is wrong—Kelley’s Pulaski Academy football team is one such example, albeit dramatic, of what keeping the defense on the field and treating each fourth down as a chance to keep driving can do. It’s unlikely any college coach will ever reach that level of aggressiveness, especially with high school football being easier across the board with plenty of less athletic or skilled players mixed in with future Division I recruits, but the numbers do suggest that this upward trend is a smart and fitting one—it’s “low-hanging fruit” in terms of the analytics revolution sweeping through sports. On Saturday, LSU head coach Ed Orgeron’s willingness to go for it on fourth secured his team a massive win over No. 2 Georgia. The then-13th-ranked Tigers were coming off an eight-point loss to Florida, one in which a decision to kick a short field goal rather than attempt a fourth-and-short conversion cost them a chance at a marquee win. The third-year head coach made a necessary adjustment, though, and used four successful fourth down conversions to wear out a Bulldogs defense that gave up 17 points in the fourth quarter of a 36-16 loss. Yes, converting four-of-four is an impressive and oft unrepeatable success rate, but each time, Orgeron made the right decision. At some point in the not so distant future, what Orgeron did will

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Earlier in the week, Louisville’s Tutu Atwell said that he saw “a lot of slow people” on BC’s defense—the Eagles took offense, dominating both sides of the line of scrimmage. BY ANDY BACKSTROM Sports Editor . Boston College football running back David Bailey’s first career rushing touchdown was somewhat of a tease. The true freshman found the end zone in the back half of the Eagles’ seasonopening rout of Massachusetts. He ran the ball 11 times the following week for 80 yards before sitting out the next four games, including last Saturday’s loss at No. 23 North Carolina State. But with Heisman Trophy candidate A.J. Dillon out with a left ankle injury for a second-consecutive week, and Ben

Glines struggling on the ground, Bailey heard his name called for the first time in a month. The true freshman made the most of the opportunity, doing his best Dillon impression—one that was extremely believable. Not only is the 6-foot-1, 245pound Bailey practically identical in size to his sophomore counterpart, but he also runs like him too. The deceptively agile Ridley, Md. native spearheaded a second-half Eagles rushing attack that butchered Louisville for 178 yards, making up for two early turnovers and

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BY PETER KIM Asst. Sports Editor Midway through the first quarter of Saturday’s game, Boston College football was up, 14-0, against Louisville, had just forced a Cardinals punt, and looked to be on its way to a comfortable victory. Two-consecutive turnovers and two Louisville touchdowns later, the Eagles suddenly found themselves in a dogfight, battling a Cardinals team that had suddenly seized all the momentum. The afternoon could have gotten a lot worse for BC. Fortunately for the Eagles, they relaxed, overcame their sloppiness, and

outscored Louisville, 24-7, down the stretch to move to 4-0 at home on the season. Here are some observations and takeaways from the game. David Bailey does his best A.J. Dillon impression Before the season started, when questions still surrounded BC’s running back depth, head coach Steve Addazio reminded everyone not to forget about David Bailey. “David is another one of those really talented young backs,” he told BCEagles.com. “Watching him right

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Barnes, Bizal Lead Eagles to Dramatic Overtime Victory BY JACK COLEMAN For The Heights One minute left. The clock slowly dwindled down as those present for the mid-afternoon bout between Boston College women’s hockey (3-2) and St. Lawrence University (2-3-1) could do nothing but watch as the visiting Saints boasted an imposing 1-0 lead. It all began with a face-off between Kayla Nielsen and Caitrin Lonergan. The Eagles forward won the puck and flung it down toward the waiting St. Lawrence defense. Lindsay Agnew was the first to get a look on goal, but her shot was promptly

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blocked by St. Lawrence’s Amanda Butterfield. The puck ricocheted into the area of Cayla Barnes. Her shot too would prove to be a near miss, actually hitting the pipe. At this point, bodies were strewn across the ice, as Saints defenders sought to block the shots of an assortment of BC skaters, who likewise were flailing their own bodies in desperate attempt to get something into the net. Luckily for the Eagles, Barnes would have one more shot at glory. With 27.5 seconds remaining, the redshirt freshman’s attempt barely squeezed past St. Lawrence goalie Sonjia Shelly. As soon as everyone realized that the puck had finally found the net, the few souls in

attendance let out a large roar, no doubt as a result of great relief and excitement. The rest of the Eagles swarmed Barnes with their hopes still alive as they headed into overtime. Overtime proved far less difficult for the Eagles. Grace Bizal was not ready to go down after such a great comeback, which mirrored the previous night’s game against St. Lawrence as part of the two-game series. Makenna Newkirk sent a pass Bizal’s way, which she then reared back and slapped toward the goal. The laser rocketed past Shelly and ripped into the back of the net.

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Grace Bizal recorded the game-winning goal, a minute and 43 seconds into overtime.

MSOC: BC Falls Short of Upset at Wake WSOC: Eagles Tie Miami in Coral Gables

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Six Different Eagles Score in Bounce-Back Victory Over Minutewomen By Peter Kim Asst. Sports Editor

Boston College field hockey outshot No. 1 North Carolina—the highest-scoring team in the country—on Friday night, but only found the Massachusetts 1 back of the cage Boston College 6 once. The lone goal wasn’t nearly enough to keep pace with the Tar Heels, and, as a result, BC suffered a 4-1 loss. On Sunday afternoon, however, finishing came easily to head coach Kelly Doton’s team. Six different Eagles etched their name in the scorecard for the third time this season, and BC returned to win column with a 6-1 victory over Massachusetts.

Just like against UNC, Lucy Lytle kicked off the match by scoring the gameopening goal—only this time, she didn’t waste a single minute of play. In fact, just 25 seconds into the contest, the senior received a pass from Brooke Matherson atop the circle and flung a shot past Minutewoman (7-9, 5-2 Atlantic 10) goalkeeper Johanna von dem Borne. But the New England bout wasn’t entirely one sided—at least in the early going. UMass racked up eight shots in the first period of play, just as many as the top-ranked Tar Heels tallied on Friday night. Luckily for the No. 12 Eagles (9-5, 2-3 Atlantic Coast), Joanna Kennedy was on her game. After replacing Sarah Dwyer in the back half of the second period against

UNC, the freshman started her second career game on Sunday. Quite simply, she made the most of the opportunity. Kennedy notched seven saves and staged a shutout throughout the first 63 minutes of regulation. With a one-goal lead on its hands, BC peppered UMass with shots—eventually, the persistence paid off. Three minutes before halftime, Frederique Haverhals capitalized on a corner, burying the Eagles’ second goal of the day, courtesy of a Brigid Wood assist. The senior’s shot soared past a number of Minutewomen and landed in the back of the cage, giving BC a bit of a cushion heading into intermission. The Eagles began the second half the same way they started the first. Three

minutes in, Elizabeth Warner got the best of von dem Borne at the doorstep of the net, tapping the ball into the cage for her fifth goal of the year. Right on cue, UMass pressed the pause button on BC’s scoring spurt, which ultimately resumed about 15 minutes later. Once again, the Eagles scored off a corner: Haverhals delivered a pass to Fusine Govaert, and the sophomore cashed in for her first goal in practically a month. With less than 20 minutes remaining, the Minutewomen found themselves staring at a four-score deficit. In due time, though, UMass spoiled Kennedy’s blanking, thanks to a Lucy Cooper penalty stroke. If anything, the Minutewomen scoring play added fuel to the fire for BC. The Eagles

responded with two goals in the span of three minutes and 13 seconds. Sky Caron restored BC’s four-score lead with a reverse tip-in. Then, soon after, Elizabeth Dennehy tacked on the Eagles’ sixth and final goal of the afternoon off yet another corner. When all was said and done, BC finished with 10 corners to UMass’ two, partially why the Eagles created as much separation as they did. But even without them, BC’s offense was clearly superior. The Eagles may have split the weekend, but, in doing so, they outshot their opponents a combined, 32-17. If BC—a team that was shut out in two its final three games last season—is going to make any noise down the stretch, it’ll have to play like it did this weekend: fast and aggressive. n

WOMEN’S SOCCER

BC Left Frustrated After Losing Lead in Overtime Draw With Miami By Peter Kim Asst. Sports Editor

When Jenna Bike was tripped in the box in the 33rd minute of Boston College women’s soccer’s Saturday night match against Miami, Boston College 1 and Sam CofMiami 1 fey stepped up and coolly slotted a penalty kick into the left corner of the net, it appeared everything was going to plan for the Eagles. Now with the lead, they could focus on controlling the game in the midfield and riding a rock-solid back line to victory, as they have done so excellently this entire season. It worked, up until the 70th minute, when a fantastic piece of skill from Miami’s Mallory Olson tied the game. From there, the Hurricanes hung on for dear life, thwarting the Eagles for the next 10 minutes and two overtime periods, thanks in part to a fantastic performance from goalkeeper Phallon Tullis-Joyce, who recorded eight saves. Despite constant pressure and a bevy of chances, BC left Coral Gables,

Fla. with a 1-1 draw, a result that will likely frustrate head coach Alison Foley, given the amount of opportunities the Eagles had to win the game. The game began physically, as both teams failed to record a shot for the first 20 minutes while fighting for control of the midfield. In the early going, the Eagles committed four fouls to Miami’s one. When the chances did come, it was the Hurricanes who had the first good look of the day, as Michelle Giamportone’s header forced Alexis Bryant to make her first save of the day. On the other end, a trademark BC corner kick saw Coffey’s service find the head of Kayla Duran, but the freshman pushed her shot just over the bar. Seven minutes later, Bike broke free on the right side of the box and created space for a shot, but her fierce drive was saved by Tullis-Joyce. That would prove to be a sign of things to come, as the next time Bike was able to make a run into space in the box she was tripped for the foul that led to Coffey’s goal. The Eagles looked to build on the

penalty strike and were close to logging a second goal just five minutes later. Again Bike was the creator, as her shot hit the crossbar, leaving BC just inches away from doubling its lead. Nevertheless, the Eagles entered the break with a one-goal advantage after Bryant stopped a Giamportone header just before intermission. When the second half began, BC continued to pressure the Hurricanes in search of the second goal that would likely seal the match. Kayla Jennings drew a save from Tullis-Joyce, Duran pushed another effort over the bar, and Coffey also cleared the cage with a shot from distance. Three Eagles corner kicks also amounted to nothing, as Miami bided its time waiting for the perfect opportunity to pounce on the counter attack. The Hurricanes came close once after one of Coffey’s corner kicks was cleared. Rachel Sorkenn got a shot off after the ball was cycled quickly up the field, but Bryant was equal to the task and preserved BC’s lead. But the redshirt senior could do nothing about Miami’s game-tying goal

just five minutes later. A long ball was played over the top to Olson, and the freshman masterfully controlled the pass off a bounce with her right foot, sliding the ball past an Eagles defender before using her left foot to curl an unstoppable effort just inside the far post to tie the game at one. Playing angry, BC was immediately back on the offensive. Jillian Jennings set up Coffey just outside the box, but her left-footed shot was bobbled and then smothered by Tullis-Joyce. Just two minutes later, Coffey got another great chance when Bike slid the ball to her inside the box, only for Tullis-Joyce to again scramble the shot away. In the final 10 minutes of play, the Eagles weren’t able to break through on four corner kicks, and another Duran shot was blocked, as the two teams headed to overtime still knotted at one. When the extra periods began, BC continued to have the majority of the chances. Two more Coffey corner kicks were for naught, and Duran and Bike both watched as their efforts were blocked by scrambling Eagles defenders.

On the other end, Gudrun Haralz had the Hurricanes’ best chance of overtime when she was able to get a shot off while falling over in the BC box, but Bryant gathered herself for an easy save. Eventually, however, neither side was able to break through before the final whistle. As far as the Eagles are concerned, it was a tough ending to a game that they had otherwise dominated, outshooting Miami, 18-6, and enjoying an 11-1 advantage on corner kicks. “We certainly had enough opportunities to win tonight, but credit to their goalkeeper,” Foley told BCEagles.com. “She made some great saves and was very good on corners.” Certainly, a point on the road isn’t the worst result in the world for the Eagles, but considering that BC still retains a fighting chance at an ACC regular season title, Foley and Co. have to be disappointed that they weren’t able to take advantage of more of their opportunities on Saturday night. With matches against powerhouses North Carolina and Duke looming on the horizon, BC will have to be more clinical from here on out. n

Addazio’s Fourth-Down Decisions Mirror Growing Trend in FBS Go For It, from A9 be understandable and unnoticeable. The last few years have seen a distinct uptick in conversion attempts. Coaches around the country are finally making the right choices—especially in terms of not settling for a field goal, which is always far from automatic with the way kickers have fluctuated. BC is a prime example of a team that should, in most cases, go for it. Place kicker Colton Lichtenberg is 2-for-2 on field goal attempts this season after missing four games with an injury, but his track record is far from good. Lichtenberg was just 12-for-20 on field goals last season and was a woeful 2-for-8 from 40-plus yards. His backup and potential future replacement, John Tessitore, missed four extra points in 18 tries, so it’s not as if Addazio has had the ability to turn to a kicker on fourth downs—he’s only opted to kick a field goal three times in seven games. This isn’t a new trend, though, as the Eagles have struggled to recruit a quality place kicker in years past. Three seasons ago, BC attempted just 11 field goals and connected on six of them the entire sea-

son, and you have to go back to 2013 to find an Eagles kicker with any consistent success, as it was Nate Freese who punctuated his four-year career on the Heights with a perfect 20-for-20 rate. So, instead of lining up for likely misses, Addazio has shifted his philosophy. His worst season with BC, the awful 2015 campaign in which the Eagles finished 3-9 and didn’t win a single conference game, saw just 13 attempts on fourth down. BC finished 111th in the country in the number of attempts and struggled mightily in the minimal tries, too—it converted just five of them, a roughly 38 percent success rate that was good for 108th. The conservative coach has evolved with the game, though. The Eagles, with 18 attempts thus far, are tied for seventh in the nation, a 100-plus spot jump from three years prior, and their 50 percent success rate is right around the mean. Without a consistent kicker, BC’s tendency to go for it—it averages nearly three attempts per game—has slightly eased the burden on the defense’s shoulders. The Eagles have struggled mightily on third downs, converting under 40 percent of their attempts, and the drives that stall out quickly force BC’s defense

back on to the field. This has happened with regularity, as BC ranks 107th in time of possession, consistently holding the ball for considerably less time than the opposition. Going for it on fourth down helps somewhat, and it’s a credit to Addazio that he has managed to make the adjustment. BC’s four attempts against the Cardinals were clear instances of what can go right, and what can go wrong. The first one came on 4th-and-5 on the Louisville 27-yard line—a 44-yard field goal that was beyond Lichtenberg’s distance. Anthony Brown’s pass to Travis Levy fell incomplete, though, and Louisville’s Jawon Pass engineered a touchdown drive in the other direction that nudged the Cardinals ahead, 20-14. Even after that backfire, Addazio came back to going for it on fourth down, and it actually worked. Brown had a 1-yard sneak to move the chains on 4th-and-1 from BC’s 49yard line, a conversion coming out of halftime that set the tone for the Eagles. The drive stalled after a sack, and the next attempt came from the Cardinals’ 5-yard line. BC was up, 24-20, and running back David Bailey couldn’t punch it in on another 4th-and-1, but the call was still

the right one. The momentum was firmly with the Eagles, having forced Louisville into a three-and-out to get the ball. By going for it, there was two possible outcomes, both better than settling for three points—BC would either convert and likely score a touchdown, or it’d pin the Cardinals offense, which was coming off a rough drive, in the shadow of its own end zone. The final conversion was a crushing blow for the Cardinals. BC still led by just four points and was facing a 4th-and-4 from Louisville’s 23-yard-line. Instead of attempting a 40-yard Lichtenberg field goal—one that would keep the Cardinals within a score—Addazio kept the offense out, and Brown rewarded him with a 20-yard pass to Levy. A pair of Bailey runs later, the Eagles were celebrating a 31-20 lead that allowed them to coast the rest of the way. These examples are just from the last game, but they’re reflective of a coach, who, like Orgeron, has proven he knows when the time is right to push forward. Addazio has been rightly criticized in years past for an uninspired offense—the number of three-and-outs occuring in startlingly similar fashions surely is a

product of the run, run, and pass choice. Still, the past two years have seen a growth in his decision-making, as he has strayed away from the “safe” punting choice that removes any media criticism. Yes, he’s been forced into this predicament because of a general lack of trust in his kickers, but he’s run with it and made timely choices to go for it on fourth down. College football as a whole has seen an increase in attempts—Air Force, a runheavy triple-option team, is on pace to try 50 fourth-down conversions, a mark that is nearly an attempt per game higher than last year’s leaders in Florida Atlantic and Northwestern. It’s a refreshing shift that should, in several years time, be regarded as totally normal. Kelley’s strategy might seem drastic, but the coach that never punts presides over a team that has won several state championships in a dominant manner. It’s worth considering that the conventional wisdom could simply be wrong, and Addazio and Orgeon are two of many college coaches that are catching on.

Bradley Smart is the Assoc. Sports Editor for The Heights. He can be reached on Twitter @bradleysmart15.

SPORTS in SHORT ACC WOMen’s Soccer Standings Conference overall 12-2-1 North Carolina 7-0 Boston College 13-1-1 5-1-1 Duke 11-2-2 5-1-1 Louisville 11-3 5-2 Virginia 11-2 4-2 Clemson 9-6 4-3 Florida State 10-3-2 3-3-1 Virginia Tech 3-4 7-5-3 Notre Dame 3-4 7-8 NC State 2-3-2 9-4-3 Miami 2-4-1 5-7-3 Wake Forest 2-5 6-7-1 Pitt 0-6 4-8-1 Syracuse 0-7 3-12

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Consecutive losses for volleyball, after dropping matches to Florida State and Miami this weekend.

Goals given up by men’s hockey to Wisconsin in two games to start the season.

Goals for Simon Enstrom after his game-winner against Harvard Tuesday, more than every other men’s soccer player combined.

“I guess we were just on our shit today. And we needed to be.” — Quarterback Anthony

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Late-Game Heroics Set the Stage for Eagles’ Sweep of Saints the senior players on her team were, due to BC having such a young group. Many freshmen had major roles in the game and truly played beyond their years in the pivotal top-10 matchup. Maddy McArthur is one of these talents—her clutch goalkeeping was essential to the Eagles’ victory. Although her 15 saves dulled in comparison to Shelly’s 34, the disparity was solely due to the fact that the BC offensive core controlled the puck throughout the game and was constantly

WHOK Vs. SLU, from A9 Just like that, the game was over, and the Eagles escaped with a 2-1 overtime win. “I think they are doing a great job with our younger players in just teaching them the culture and how hard we have to work here and what it means to play for BC,” head coach Katie Crowley said after the game. The Eagles coach was sure to express how important the leadership roles of

hounding the opposing net. The one goal that did get by McArthur was representative of much of the game. Over the course of the overtime thriller, sticks were flying through the air and being tossed around. One such moment occurred when senior Megan Keller lost hold of her stick. She was left with no choice but to try to kick away the puck with merely her body while her stick was left behind in her icy dust. Another similar moment happened when Kali Flanagan also lost her

stick and had it thrown to her mid-skate. The goal in question, however, came with 12:56 left in the second period. The puck went flying through the air, and a BC player tried grabbing it to no avail—instead, it bounced off her and set up a Saints scoring opportunity. Kayla Vespa and Maggie McLaughlin essentially had a 2-on-1. One quick pass led to a McLaughlin shot that bounced off the goal and somehow managed to rattle into the net. But the rest of the day, St. Lawrence

failed to light the lamp again, giving BC every last second to equalize. Two weeks into the season, Crowley has already had to sweat out two overtime games—experiences she believes will benefit the team in the long run. But for her sake, it certainly wouldn’t hurt if the Eagles created a bit more separation in the games’ early stages. “If we can get out earlier, it won’t have to be so stressful, and I won’t have to grow more gray hairs,” Crowley exclaimed. 

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Bailey Ignites Rushing Attack, Carries BC to Homecoming Win Football Vs. LOU, from A9 seven total penalties in the process. Jawon Pass and the Cardinals couldn’t keep pace, and BC walked away with a 38-20 victory. Louisville won the coin toss and elected to receive, eager to get off on the right foot after playing from behind all last week against Georgia Tech. Instead, the Cardinals went backward. Louisville mustered a combined -1 yards over the course of its first two drives. Wyatt Ray dragged down Pass—his first of three sacks—and Connor Strachan mauled Hassan Hall behind the line of scrimmage. Four days removed from Tutu Atwell’s comment that, when looking at BC’s defense, he sees “a lot of slow people”—a statement that head coach Steve Addazio says his guys took offense to—the Eagles flew to the ball relentlessly, making the Louisville wideout eat his words. “There was a different energy in the hotel today before we left,” Addazio said. “There was one of those deals where we felt like this was going to be real street fight out here today.” Jim Reid’s defense was one thing, the rain was another. Although it was just a slight drizzle, the early-game precipitation had a noticeable effect on the Cardinals. A dropped pass and mishandled snap/handoff curtailed their opening two series. Not only that, but practically the entire team donned

rain jackets on the sideline. BC, on the other hand, was unfazed—it was just another fall New England day. The Eagles jumped out to a two-touchdown lead, engineering back-to-back scoring drives to start the game for the second time this season. Thanks to prime field position, it only took five plays for BC to get on the board. At the Louisville 26-yard line, Anthony Brown faked a handoff to Glines and rolled right before connecting with a wide-open Hunter Long. The redshirt freshman tight end hauled in the reception, turned, and sprinted to the end zone, reaching the ball past the pylon for six. After being reviewed, the scoring play was upheld, marking Brown’s 14th touchdown pass of the season—the most of an Eagles quarterback in a single season since Chase Rettig’s 17 back in 2013. The next drive, offensive coordinator Scot Loeffler reached into his back pocket and called for the flea-flicker. Just as he did last year at Virginia, Brown executed the play to near perfection, hitting Michael Walker in stride for a 42-yard completion. Glines finished the job, dancing outside the tackles and scampering into the end zone for his sixth total touchdown of the season. BC was in complete control, and Louisville’s defense was anemic at best. Dating back to last weekend’s blowout loss to GT, Bobby Petrino’s team had gone 10-straight

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the field. Using the read-option, Pass moved the sticks at will, recording 26 yards on the ground amid a nine-play, 73-yard touchdown drive. With the goal line in sight, the sophomore signal caller faked a handoff to Hall and dashed into the end zone, practically untouched. Trailing, 20-14, Addazio turned to Bailey—someone who he wished he had played the week prior at N.C. State. “Every week I am always ready—it’s the next-man-up mentality,” Bailey said. “Coach called my name today, and I went in and played ball like I always do.” As soon as he entered the game, the Eagles’ run game looked different, somewhat reminiscent of Dillon’s ground-and-pound attack. Bailey alone wasn’t enough to turn around the BC offense—not yet, at least. That was left to the Eagles special teams. For the second-consecutive week, BC blocked a punt—this time Nolan Borgersen did the dirty work—and Travis Levy tracked it down in the end zone for a touchdown. Then, Colton Lichtenberg tacked on a 39-yard field goal at the end of the half to give BC a four-point cushion entering intermission. In the second half, Bailey stole the show. The true freshman carried the ball 23 times for 87 yards. Of those 23 rushing attempts, eight came on the Eagles’ opening series of

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drives without preventing a touchdown. But all it took was two Eagles turnovers for Louisville to change the complexion of the game. Glines fumbled at BC’s 6-yard line, essentially gifting the Cardinals four free chances to punch the ball into the end zone. They did just that: On 4th-and-1, backup quarterback Malik Cunningham pushed through the Eagles defensive line, spun while being tackled, and attempted to lunge the nose of the ball past the goal line. Initially, he was ruled short, but after a five-minute review, the call was overturned, and Louisville cut its deficit in half—well, almost. Zach Allen blocked the ensuing extra point, preserving an eight-point BC lead. Yet, just when it looked like the Eagles were going to resume their scoring spurt, Walker coughed up his second kickoff of the season. An unsportsmanlike conduct penalty backed up the Cardinals a bit, but, ultimately, the flag didn’t matter. Pass orchestrated a five-play, 40-yard scoring drive—one that culminated in a 3-yard Hassan Hall rushing touchdown. When the Eagles finally got the ball back, the offense looked out of sorts. Glines struggled to find running room, and Brown’s accuracy dipped. Even a Hamp Cheevers interception wasn’t enough to spark Loeffler’s unit. So, like the past few weeks, BC’s defense was stuck on

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the fourth quarter—a drive that enabled BC to pull away from its Atlantic Division foe. Bailey capped off the 93-yard series with a 1-yard touchdown, what would have been his second of the day had a 32-yard thirdquarter score not been called back. As Louisville’s run defense collapsed, so did its offense. After scoring three touchdowns in the span of 11 minutes of game time during the opening half, the Cardinals—at one point inserting third-stringer Jordan Travis—showed little to no signs of life in the final portion of play. Eventually, the Eagles started to milk the clock and, in doing so, scored one final touchdown. Glines picked up 41 yards on a draw play out of the shotgun, eclipsing the 100-yard mark for the third time this year. Then, at the goal line, Jeff Smith dove past the pylon on a jet sweep, officially putting the game to bed. When all was said and done, Brown finished 16-of-22 for 179 yards and a score. Bailey and Glines paved the way for a 251yard day on the ground. And, debatably more impressive than any other statistic, the Eagles held Louisville to a mere 47 rushing yards. Even without Dillon, BC pulled itself together when it mattered most, beating up on an ACC bottomfeeder before the toughest stretch of the season. “I guess we were just on our shit today,” Brown said. “And we needed to be.” 

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Eagles’ Early Lead Goes to Waste in Lopsided Loss to No. 1 UNC BY ANDY BACKSTROM Sports Editor

North Carolina entered Friday night’s matchup against Boston College field hockey with the best scoring defense in the North Carolina 4 N C A A . Th e Boston College 1 top-ranked Tar Heels had only conceded six goals all season—four less than every other team in the country—logging seven shutouts in the process. BC, 213 all-time against UNC, knew what it was up against. “I mean, they know the stats,” head coach Kelly Doton said after the game. “[The Tar Heels] haven’t given up more than one goal in six games—shutouts the rest of the time. We had to put them under pressure pretty well.” That the Eagles did, and 11 minutes in, Lucy Lytle beat UNC goalkeeper Amanda Hendry for a far-post goal, recording her eighth and ninth points of the season. Up until the final stages of regulation, BC kept its foot on the pedal, ultimately outshooting the six-time defending national champions, 9-8. The problem was, of UNC’s eight shots, four found the back of the cage. Led by Erin Matson, who tallied a game-high three points, the Tar Heels rallied to close out the first half with a

pair of goals and then tacked on two more in the second period. Not only did they live up to their reputation as the highest-scoring offense in the nation, but they also secured a commanding 4-1 victory, preserving their perfect record. The three-goal defeat is the No. 12 Eagles’ (8-5, 2-3 Atlantic Coast) worst of the year. In fact, all four of their other losses were decided by just one scoring play—two of which came in overtime. Judging by the first 15 minutes of action, such a lopsided scoring margin would have appeared rather unreasonable. Even though No. 1 UNC (14-0, 60) controlled possession in the early going, notching two of the game’s first three shots, the Eagles more than held their own. Applying the press, BC frequently forced the Tar Heels outside the circle, protecting goalie Sarah Dwyer from the most lethal scoring attack in the country. After threatening with a Frederique Haverhals penalty corner, the Eagles made their move. Located at the edge of the left side of the circle, Nell Webber squeezed a pass by the stick of Courtnie Williamson, right into a pocket of open space at the doorstep of the cage. Lytle pounced on the opportunity, sprinting to the ball and looping it past an out-of-position Hendry.

For all of seven and a half minutes, it looked as if Doton and Co. might have an upset on their hands. Then, UNC forced back-to-back corners, the second of which spelled the beginning of the end for BC. Haverhals attempted to clear the ball out of Eagles territory, but Tar Heels midfielder Malin Evert intercepted it, charged forward, and delivered a pass to Catherine Hayden in the circle. Challenged by Sky Caron, the junior faked left before dumping the ball off to her right, locating Marissa Creatore. Straddling the end line, she flung a cross past the leg of Dwyer for Matson, who—with one hand—extended her stick, tapping the ball into the cage. BC nearly retook the lead with about 14 minutes left in the opening period. With just Hendr y to beat, Brooke Matherson received a backhanded pass right in front of the net. The graduate student poked the ball through the UNC goalie, but the shot didn’t have quite enough juice on it—before it could roll into the cage, Cassie Sumfest came swooping in to jutt the ball away from the post, recording a crucial team save. Soon after, the Tar Heels turned another BC turnover into their second scoring play of the evening. Following an errant Eagles pass, Abby Pitcairn slotted the ball to a wideopen Creatore. The upperclassman

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After taking an early lead, BC conceded four goals the rest of the way, falling to UNC.

glided down the right side of the field, outrunning Lytle into the circle. In the nick of time, Creatore got off a pass to Hayden, who—without hesitation—whacked the ball through Dwyer’s five-hole to give UNC a 2-1 lead heading into the break. The pace of play certainly slowed in the second period. That’s not to say that the Tar Heels let up. Less than five minutes into the latter portion of play, they returned to their goalscoring ways. A Caron foul near the end line gifted UNC with a penalty corner, effectively enabling Matson to dial up a dangerous shot for her teammates. The freshman inserted the ball toward the top of the circle. Thanks

to a Yentl Leemans stick stop, Ashley Hoffman had a wide-open look on net. Immediately, she ripped the ball past a sprawling Dwyer, all but putting the match out of reach. Flash forward 15 or so minutes, and Eva Van’t Hoog single-handedly put the icing on the cake. The senior split a pair of BC defenders, veered left, and whipped a backhand shot into the back of the cage, chasing the Eagles’ goalkeeper from the game. Dwyer—who recorded three-straight shutouts and earned ACC Defensive Player of the Week honors at the end of September—has now allowed nine goals in her last three starts. 

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BC Controls Both Sides of Line of Scrimmage Against Cardinals NOTE Vs. Louisville from A9 now, he reminds me of where A.J. was at this time a year ago.” Well, after Dillon was ruled out for a second-straight week, and the Eagles’ running game struggled to find its legs in the first quarter, Bailey finally got a chance to show how accurate Addazio’s observation really was. And after watching him get extended action for the first time, it’s hard not to compare the true freshman to the superstar sophomore. After Louisville took a 20-14 lead, Bailey began the next BC drive by taking a handoff and bouncing the ball outside, dragging a Louisville defender for two extra yards. The very next play, he got the ball again and bullied his way to six physical yards. These two carries were an excellent example of what the true freshman brings to the team. Much like Dillon, he can use his physical 6-foot-1, 245pound frame to fight for tough yards up the middle, but also dance outside and showcase breakaway speed if necessary. Bailey finished the day with 28 carries for 112 yards and a one-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter, and his day could have been even better if a 32-yard touchdown run he broke in the third quarter hadn’t been nullified by a holding penalty. On that run, Bailey broke three tackles, and likely would have scored even without the hold. Dillon should be back carrying the load in two weeks when Miami comes to Alumni Stadium, but it has to be reassuring for BC fans to know that, should he go down with an injury again,

the Eagles have another more-than-capable replacement waiting in the wings. Kudos to the Offensive Line Of course, any good running performance is also a byproduct of excellent blocking, and BC’s offensive line deserves a lot of credit for paving the way for not one, but two 100-yard rushing performances on Saturday. Ben Glines also reached 100 yards rushing for the second time this season, and it was his 41-yard run in the fourth quarter that really ended Louisville’s chances at winning the game. Watch that rushing play again, however, and notice that the right side of the offensive line opened a huge hole for Glines to run through. The entire line was physical throughout the game against a fast Louisville defensive line, and helped set the tone and control the trenches from the very first play. They weren’t too shabby in pass protection either, as the Cardinals managed just one sack all game long, and Anthony Brown was rarely under duress. After some struggles earlier in the year against Purdue, one of the Eagles’ most experienced units has once again turned into a force to be reckoned with. The Special Teams Rollercoaster Continues Special teams is a talking point in nearly every BC game, and Saturday’s contest was no different, as Ricky Brown’s unit took turns being a problem and a strength for the Eagles. First, just after Louisville recovered a Glines fumble deep in BC territory and capitalized on fourth down with a Malik Cunningham touch-

down run, Zach Allen got his hand on the extra point attempt, and Hamp Cheevers scooped the loose ball and nearly returned it the other way for what would have been two points. For once, the Eagles weren’t the ones with extra-point woes. But just one play later, BC fans were once again left frustrated by special teams, as Michael Walker coughed up the kickoff return by running into the back of his own blocker. Louisville recovered, then turned the good field position into another touchdown. Walker has now fumbled on three returns this season— two kickoffs and one punt—and all three fumbles have turned into opposition touchdowns. The Eagles would get those seven points back later, as they sent the house on a Cardinals punt and Nolan Borgersen got fingertips on the ball, deflecting it into the end zone where it bounced fortuitously, allowing Travis Levy to recover for BC’s second puntblock touchdown in two weeks. For the second-straight week, the Eagles were on the right side of some game-changing special teams plays, but against stronger opposition, they still can’t afford the negative plays like the Walker fumble. For now, though, special teams aren’t the total liability that it appeared to be early in the season. Penalties Last season, the Eagles were one of the most disciplined teams in the country. They averaged just 3.6 penalties per

game, the third-fewest in the country. This season, flags have been more of an issue, as they were once again against Louisville. The most glaring infraction was the Aaron Monteiro hold that nullified Bailey’s 32-yard touchdown run in the third quarter, but a pass-interference call on Brandon Sebastian also set Louisville up at the BC three-yard line in the second quarter. Then, later in the period, a false start on Glines stalled an Eagles drive near midfield. No team can be flag-free for an entire game, but BC is now averaging 6.6 penalties per game in 2018, nearly double its average from last year. Run Defense BC’s defense has been inconsistent this season, and there’s no better representation of that than the Eagles’ play against the run. They’ve shined against some teams, notably limiting Purdue to 41 carries for 76 yards and struggled against others. Just last week, North Carolina State ran all over the Eagles to the tune of 225 yards on 53 carries. This week, the defensive line came ready to play, perhaps more motivated after being called “slow” by Louisville wide receiver Tutu Atwell during the week. The Cardinals had 32 carries for just 47 yards. They found some limited success in the second quarter, utilizing the read-option, but, for the most part, BC played physical and downhill, with multiple tacklers flying to the ball on

every play. Allen was debatably the most impressive, laying a big hit on Hassan Hall on an end-around, and later dragging down Jawon Pass on a quarterback keeper with just one arm. The Eagles will need to bring the same ferocity for the remainder of the season if they want to keep up their success against the run. Being Aggressive on Fourth Down Perhaps still lacking confidence in the kicking game, even with Colton Lichtenberg healthy and ready to resume place-kicking duties, BC went for it on fourth down three times inside Louisville territory, with mixed results. First, Brown missed Levy on a wheel route on 4th-and-5 from the Cardinals’ 27-yard line to turn the ball over on downs, and then Bailey was stuffed on 4th-and-1 from the Cardinals’ five. Later, though, the Eagles redeemed themselves. With BC ahead, 24-20, in the fourth quarter, Addazio kept the offense on the field on 4th-and-4, rather than attempting a 43-yard field goal. This time it paid off, as Brown found a wide open Levy in the flat for a 20-yard gain that led to David Bailey’s touchdown that put the Eagles up 11. It certainly feels like Addazio has been more aggressive on fourth downs than in years past, something which will have to continue if BC hopes to continue winning with the toughest part of the schedule still to come. n

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Eagles’ Non-Conference Struggles Continue Against Wisconsin By Bradley Smart Assoc. Sports Editor

A blistering seven-goal win over New Brunswick in a preseason exhibition for Boston College men’s hockey inspired plenty of optimism entering a road weekend series with Wisconsin. The 12th-ranked Eagles seemed poised to shake off the non-conference struggles from a year ago, especially against the Badgers, a team that came to Chestnut Hill a season ago and skated away with a resounding three-goal win. The struggles continued, though. BC was blanked, 3-0, in Friday night’s season opener, then mounted a second-period comeback the following night only to watch it slip away in a dramatic 7-5 loss. The backto-back defeats, even though they came on the road, were especially startling as the Badgers entered the year unranked and had seven freshman don their first sweaters and appear in a DI game. BC, despite returning almost all of its production, couldn’t find a goal in the opener and then struggled mightily in its defensive zone the next night. Despite outshooting their hosts in the first loss and then staying level in the second game, the Eagles extended a particularly harsh run of non-conference losses. BC hasn’t won a non-conference game since

a 3-1 win over Arizona State on Nov. 13, 2016, almost two years ago at the turn of the month. The Eagles nearly warranted a top-10 ranking entering this year, with people looking at their impressive depth and experience as a mark of success, but BC squandered a chance to solidify that ranking with the disappointing weekend. Fans are looking for a return to the NCAA Tournament, but until the Eagles can prove they have the resolve to win nonconference games, especially those away from home, people shouldn’t place great expectations on the group. Yes, BC was close with Wisconsin, even clawing its way back in the second game, but goaltender Joseph Woll allowed a career-worst six goals, and the offense had to turn to a sparkplug in David Cotton to even keep it close. Wisconsin took advantage of lapses in the Eagles defense to pile up seven goals, a number that mirrored last season’s setback against rival Boston University. The first two minutes would prove to be simply a sign of things to come, as it was a featured underclassmen on each side that found paydirt. Badgers sophomore Sean Dhooghe deflected a shot from teammate Wyatt Kalynuk past Woll just 38 seconds in, then BC’s Oliver Wahlstrom scored his first career goal under a minute later—the star

freshman was set up by Christopher Grando and Michael Kim, beating goalie Jack Berry to his blocker side. The Badgers answered back and then some, though. Wisconsin scored three unanswered goals, taking full advantage of a porous defense. Kalynuk tucked one away past Woll from the left circle a little past the midway point of the first period, then Tarek Baker finished off a rebound, and Woll couldn’t keep his glove on a shot from Will Johnson—both goals came in the first 12 minutes of the second period. Cotton, desperate to erase the frustrations of the loss the night before, went on a run of his own making. Wahlstrom’s goal was followed by almost 35 minutes of scoreless play from the Eagles, as they struggled to crack Berry and the energetic Badgers defense. Cotton broke the drought with a forehand shot on the power play, then closed the gap further less than two minutes later. Jacob Tortora found Cotton after beating a defenseman along the right side, and the puck kicked off his skate for a goal. Surging with confidence, Cotton set up the game-tying goal with under a minute remaining in the second. The junior was credited with the secondary assist on the power play goal, playing the puck to Con-

nor Moore who set up Graham McPhee in a routine finish. Any momentum didn’t last, though. Wisconsin scored twice in the opening eight minutes of the final period, withstood a Cotton goal in the final third minutes, and punctuated the win with an emptynetter. Cotton’s hat trick was a remarkable individual feat, as without him, the Eagles likely would’ve suffered a much more embarrassing loss. The defeat followed up a disappointing effort in the first night, a 3-0 setback marked by missed chances. The Eagles knocked on the door all night long, peppering Berry with 29 shots, but failed to break through. The same couldn’t be said about the other team, as the Badgers used their youthful exuberance to great success, tallying twice in the second period and icing the game with an empty netter. Freshmen K’Andre Miller and Mick Messner scored their first collegiate goals in style. Miller, off assists from Peter Tischke and Johnson, capitalized on a screen and sent a wrister past an unassuming Woll. Messner finished off an odd-man rush, gathering a rebound and slipping it past Woll after his initial shot from the slot was denied. Michael Kim had the best chance

early for BC, nearly scoring in the second period, but the puck slipped off his stick. The Eagles upped the pressure in the final frame, sending 14 shots Berry’s way, but the junior goaltender held fast. Julius and Jesper Mattila were denied with a man advantage, and Wahlstrom created space for himself but missed the mark with a shot of fthe left post. The clock ran out after an opportunistic Baker scored with Woll on the bench, and the Eagles didn’t come away with a win in the opener for the second year in a row. The trip had all the makings of a statement opening weekend, especially for a BC team that is trying to justify its place on the national stage. The Eagles haven’t won a marquee non-conference game in over two seasons, and while the competition has been steep, there’s not much one can say to justify the struggle. If BC merits preseason hype, then it has to be able to back it up. Struggling mightily in non-conference play is a flaw that head coach Jerry York needs to find a fix for. Starting the year with consecutive losses to an unranked opponent that finished five games under .500 in 2017-18 has left a disappointing cloud over the team, something that should force adjustments as further non-conference foes loom. n

MEN’S SOCCER

No. 2 Demon Deacons Outlast BC in Foul-Plagued Showdown By Luke Pichini For The Heights

Boston College men’s soccer continued a season-long narrative during Friday night’s matchup against Wake Forest. The Eagles fell to the Demon Deacons, 2-1, Boston College 1 marking the Wake Forest 2 11th-straight game that has been decided by one goal or less this season. The Eagles (4-4-3, 2-4 Atlantic Coast) truly gave it their all in what was a physical showdown, but still ended up on the wrong side of the scoreboard. The matchup was the 10th iteration of the Genna Wiley Memorial Match, a tradition established to honor the wife of a Wake Forest trainer who lost her life to breast cancer. She passed away in 2007, just days after Wake Forest won the national championship. The No. 2 Demon Deacons (13-1, 5-1) adorned pink jerseys with Wiley’s name on the back in her memory. From the get-go, it was clear that BC could match the play of the second-best team in the country. The Eagles had several scoring opportunities in the first 15 minutes of regulation. Lasse Lehmann fed a brilliant pass to Simon Enstrom, who was mere feet away from the goal before Wake Forest goalkeeper Andreu Cases Mundet stuffed the ball. Shortly after, Enstrom and Heidar Aegisson each forced saves on their respective

headers. In the 30th minute, there was a scrum between BC defender Joshua Forbes and Wake Forest midfielder Bruno Lapa, who originally instigated the encounter by kicking Forbes in the leg. Forbes retaliated by flipping Lapa over and proceeding to push him. Both players were initially assessed yellow cards. But after the referees reviewed the tape on the video monitor, the call was changed, and both players received red cards, sending Forbes and Lapa to the showers. These were significant losses for both teams. Forbes is a senior captain for BC and plays a critical role on defense. With Lapa’s ejection, Wake Forest lost a player who had contributed nine goals and eight assists on the year. From that point forward, each team played the rest of the game with only 10 players. Near the end of the first half, Wake Forest capitalized on Forbes’ absence. In the 43rd minute, Sam Raben launched a cross from the end line into the box. Kyle Holcomb and BC goalkeeper Antonio Chavez-Borelli each jumped up for the service, but Holcomb headed it in the air toward the goal. With the ball in the air and Chavez-Borelli out of position, Michael DeShields tracked down the cross and converted the scoring play. This was DeShields’ second career goal and the first of many big plays that the redshirt sophomore made throughout the night. Coming out of the half, BC main-

tained the same aggressive style of play. And it didn’t take long for the offense to find the back of the net. In the 55th minute, Trevor Davock made a sliding pass to Aegisson, whose shot was deflected by Mundet. The deflection landed at the feet of Davock. He proceeded to boot a shot that found the corner of the net. The game was now tied at one goal apiece. Twenty minutes later, Wake Forest responded. After the Eagles successfully cleared out a Demon Deacons corner, Aristotle Zaris dribbled the ball to the end line and behind the BC defense. He successfully centered the ball to Alistair Johnston, who converted the goal from a short distance. Wake Forest now found themselves up, 2-1, with 15 minutes left in the game. Despite the setback, the Eagles kept fighting. During the final minutes, BC was consistently putting up good shots on goal. Its last real opportunity came in the 83rd minute. Wake Forest successfully defended against a BC corner, but the Eagles retained possession. A cross was lifted into the box, where it was headed by BC straight toward the goal. The ball appeared to be sailing past Mundet, but DeShields stepped in at the last minute and headed the ball out of play. The Wake Forest defense held in the face of some last-ditch attempts from the Eagles’ offense and prevailed, 2-1. The game was a thrilling physical showdown. Both teams combined for a

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Both teams saw players sent off in the 30th minute in what was a very physical game.

total of 19 fouls, two red cards, and two yellow cards. The Eagles and the Demon Deacons displayed admirable effort and, at the conclusion of the game, several BC players were on the ground due to sheer fatigue. Incredibly, the Eagles outshot the Demon Deacons, 18-7, yet still lost. Holding Wake Forest to only seven shots was a particularly impressive feat, considering that the Demon Deacons have averaged 14 a game. Prior to tonight, BC had lost its prior five meetings with Wake Forest, and it was outscored by a combined 16-1 in those meetings. Quite simply, Friday night’s matchup didn’t fit the lopsided nature of the teams’

rivalry. Rather, it was a tough loss for the Eagles. A marquee win over Wake Forest would have been a significant boost to BC’s resume for the NCAA tournament. That said, the one-goal defeat could be seen as a morale victory. BC played hard for the entire duration of the game, and head coach Ed Kelly’s crew never looked outmatched. The contest proved that the Eagles really can compete with any team in the country, they just have to find a way to close out these games. BC has defeated ACC rivals Clemson and N.C. State, but as the season draws to a close, the window for recording a few more resume-building victories is rapidly closing. n

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‘First Man’ Makes a Giant Leap for Space Cinema BY ABBY HUNT Copy Editor Two years after the premiere of La La Land, Damien Chazelle and Ryan Gosling have teamed up once again to create another likely Oscar contender. This time, however, rather than merely floating off into space, Gosling suits up and takes a shuttle, in a portrayal of Neil Armstrong in the years leading up to the Apollo 11 mission for the new movie First Man. First Man—which follows Armstrong from being a civilian test pilot for Project Mercury to being the first person to step foot on the moon—reveals the tragedy and hardship hidden beneath the glory of

mankind’s greatest mission. Before becoming a household name, Armstrong had to endure not only the professional difficulties that inherently come with being an astronaut, but also great personal tragedy—losing his 2-year-old daughter to pneumonia and several of his colleagues to failed NASA operations. In the face of these hardships, however, Armstrong remained stoic—a side of his character that Gosling was able to portray excellently, while still being incredibly moving in the moments where Armstrong’s facade does crack. The film doesn’t feel like a regular space movie—partly because large portions of it take place on Earth, but mostly because it takes few pains to help viewers understand

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the logistics of the space travel, a la Gravity and The Martian. Throughout the film, the information the audience receives about the crises that happen mid-space flight consists of no more than bits of astronaut jargon, some flashing signals, and lots of loud noises. The acting, cinematography, and sound editing do the work and make the audience feel the same pressure they would feel in the astronauts’ shoes anyway. What sticks out about First Man the most is that it takes its time on each scene. While the film jumps from year to year, when it chooses to show a moment, it shows it to the fullest—letting the scene unravel in what almost seems like real time, which again helps the audience feel like they are right there with the space travelers. In short, this is a film bent on showing instead of telling, and it pays off. Upon leaving the theater, the audience feels like they have watched the events as they have really unfolded, as if they were right there alongside Armstrong the whole time. The film’s score was composed by another La La Land alum, Justin Hurwitz. But much unlike the 2016 musical rom-com, music is sparse throughout First Man—a strategy that actually enhances the realism of the movie experience, as in both space and solitudinous thought, the outside world (or lack thereof) is often silent. When there was music, however, it was beautiful. One of the main themes is played on the obscure

musical instrument called a theremin, which without any physical contact from the performer—strangely enough—creates a sound that almost resembles a wailing woman. The result is a mournful melody that haunts the viewer with the weight of the sorrow that Armstrong carried with him to the moon. The film is not flashy, nor is it exciting, but that’s precisely the point. For example, the audience sees the moon landing not in the way it was experienced back on Earth, but in the way Armstrong experienced it. He couldn’t see the people waving American flags as they watched televised broadcasts in the streets. The only view he had was that of barren grey landscape and the only distractions from his thoughts were a few crackling voices over the mission control radio. First Man emphasizes the human aspects of the journey leading up to that “giant leap.” It portrays the story behind one of the most exciting moments in human history in a way that’s somber and subtle, and serves as a poignant reminder of the fact that the path to greatness often isn’t simple or glamorous or beautiful. In a 1962 speech at Rice Stadium, President John F. Kennedy said that “we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard,” and First Man tells the story of the man who knew how hard that journey was more than any other. 

Elvis Costello Eyes the Future on ‘Look Now’ BY MARY WILKIE Opinions Editor

Elvis Costello isn’t just a musician, and he’s not just a songwriter. He’s a storyteller. On Oct. 12, he released his first album in five years, Look Now, which tells stories of individuals, of couples, and of himself, and perfectly captures various states of emotional vulnerability. The first track, “Under Lime,” is a great example of how Costello manipulates narration. The song follows Jimmie, a washed-up performer first introduced in Costello’s 2010 track, “Jimmie Standing In The Rain.” It acts like a sequel, but also introduces the general despair that continues throughout the album and is prevalent in Costello’s music. The three singles released in anticipation of the album—“Under Lime,” “Unwanted Number,” and “Suspect My Tears”—are probably its best tracks, as they should be. They stand out from the other songs on the album and provide a taste of the musical variety within Look Now. Costello also released a deluxe version of the album, which includes four bonus tracks: “Isabelle in Tears,” “Adieu Paris (L’Envie Des Etoiles),” “The Final Mrs. Curtain,” and “You Shouldn’t Look At Me That Way.” Costello does a great job matching the tone of the music to the mood of the lyrics: He’s a dark lyricist, in a tragically poetic yet colloquial way. He sings about intimate human truths and profoundly identify-

ing flaws and faults in humanity, such as greed, evident in the repeated image of the color green in “Mr. and Mrs. Hush,” and lost love—see “Photographs Can Lie.” He takes what he knows and what he likes, and finds a way to make it completely his own. An unsurprising—yet apt—continuation of his past releases, Look Now musically exhibits a variety of influences. With a strong projection of percussive instruments including drums and cymbals, as well as prominent relaxed piano lines, there’s a vaguely jazzy tone that supplements Costello’s usual pop-rock sound. These distinct instrumental lines vary greatly between songs: Sequentially, each track in Look Now sounds completely distinct from its successor. Every melody is different, obviously influenced by various artists and genres, like the Beatles (“Under Lime”) as well as R&B and jazz (“Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter” and “Suspect My Tears”). Yet he dilutes the rock genre with synthetic manipulations in “Unwanted Number” and even distinctly mimics Aretha Franklin’s “I Say a Little Prayer” with very similar percussion and keyboard lines in the instrumental intro to “Why Won’t Heaven Help Me.” Still, in a typical manner of Costello’s music, these tracks feel like they’re made for movies. Maybe it’s his expression: His sharp enunciation combined with the tone of his voice, lilting with his British accent, intrinsically conveys a sense of pain and

hurt that accentuates the songs’ negative themes. Maybe it’s the narrative pattern, the story inherent in them all. Or maybe it’s his melodies that are so distinct and emotional and rhythmic. No matter what it is, Costello writes tracks that are meant to accompany an image. And many of his songs certainly do: In 2012, he released an album that consists entirely of his songs that have been featured in films. One of the four bonus tracks, “You Shouldn’t Look At Me That Way,” follows suit, having been in the movie Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool, about American actress Gloria Grahame. There’s a lot of emphasis on looking and not looking throughout the album. With

its title, we’re instructed to “Look Now” at negative human emotion through the album’s persistent themes of loss, deceit, and bitterness echoing in every song. Yet the second track on Look Now is called “Don’t Look Now.” These deliberately contradictory titles introduce a display of humanity at its most vulnerable. It’s real, it’s honest, it’s raw. But to be frank, it’s made for old people. Obviously, Costello’s aging, and he’s making sure that his music ages with him and with his audience. Although Look Now might be an unsurprising move in Costello’s sound, it’s the familiarity of the album, its likeness to his previous work, that allows it to be what it is. 

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Bad Times at the El Royale seems to have purposely contradicted its own name by being anything but a bad time. This film is the second in the directorial career of Drew Goddard, whose first film was the highly touted horror-parody The Cabin in the Woods. He has also produced films such as The Martian and 10 Cloverfield Lane. Out of every film he’s been involved with, this might just be his masterpiece. Bad Times at the El Royale is about a hotel (the El Royale) on the NevadaCalifornia border. The border itself cuts the property perfectly in half. A bunch of unrelated characters find their way to the hotel at around the same time, and they all have their own vices and secrets. Inevitably, hell breaks loose and the

guests clash. In the interest of leaving the delightful discovery of this movie intact, no more plot details will be revealed. Anyone who has ever seen and enjoyed Quentin Tarantino’s film The Hateful Eight will probably like this even more, because Goddard has managed to take Tarantino’s format and modified it to be more engaging and have a much faster pace. While The Hateful Eight takes its time to get into the action, Bad Times at the El Royale doesn’t lollygag around with its plot. It takes no time at all for the conflict to begin between all of the members of the very diverse cast of characters in the film, and once it does, the story is so engaging that it’s easy to forget that the movie is almost two hours and 30 minutes long. A huge part of what makes this film so good is its willingness to subvert the expectations of its audience. Bad

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There’s no doubt it’ll be difficult for Old Dominion to beat last year’s Happy Endings. All three singles off the band’s second album went to #1 on U.S. airplay charts, and rightfully so. Its newest single, “Make it Sweet,” is by all means a great song, but there’s no doubt that Old Dominion has done better. The song is catchy and fun, but it doesn’t have any specific parts that stand out. It’s not necessarily memorable, and it just blends into a sea of middle-of-the-road country love songs. Compared to a lot of today’s country music, “Make it Sweet” stands out in all the best ways. It has solid lyrics and a catchy rhythm, and no mentions of trucks and/or beer. It is unwaveringly optimistic and easy going, and the video channels Kenny Chesney’s “American Kids” hippie theme in the best of ways. But when lined up with Old Dominion’s previous hits like “Written in the Sand” and “Snapback,” it doesn’t come close. Those songs were chart-topping because they truly stood out from today’s mainstream country music. Old Dominion is best known for unique, witty lyrics and perfectly-timed rhymes (often penned by country lyric powerhouse Shane McAnally), and when measured on that scale, “Make it Sweet” just doesn’t deliver. 

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Times has a Game of Thrones-esque level of ruthlessness when it comes to its characters’ lives, and it is an incredibly refreshing deviation from the norm for modern-era filmography. No character is safe, no matter how famous the actor who plays them is, and that makes the story so much more difficult to predict, and therefore more impactful. This sort of subversion of expectation is something Goddard has been able to insert into all of his films so well, from the twist in The Cabin in the Woods to the character uncertainties in 10 Cloverfield Lane. His knack for interesting and surprising storytelling (he is credited as a writer for both Cabin and El Royale) is what has made his films so entertaining, and that certainly doesn’t stop with his newest film. One of the aspects of this movie that was very highly advertised and strongly hyped up was the cast, and it did not disappoint in any way whatsoever with Jon Hamm, Jeff Bridges, Dakota Johnson, and Chris Hemsworth (who provided what might have been his best performance ever) headlining a wonderfully talented group of actors. These performers, along with the script that they were given to work with, are what make this film so engaging. So many of these characters are likeable despite their behavior, and it makes the things that happen to them much more emotionally effective. The audience cares about the characters because the actors do such a phenomenal job of humanizing them despite how evil

and flawed many of them are. Another great part of this movie is the implementation of music throughout its duration. Sometimes, not using music at all is the best way to set the tone in a scene, and Bad Times at the El Royale has a perfect grasp of this concept. There are multiple scenes in this film where there is no background music for up to 10 minutes at a time, and it really makes the scenes without it much more tense and effective. The background silence is often combated by music within the film’s universe, namely from some of the characters either singing or listening to records from a jukebox. This adds to the immersion of the story by providing realistic audio to accompany the events that happen. Bad Times at the El Royale is a breath of fresh air for modern-day film, and may well be one of the films that enters the award-show discussions come early 2019. It is masterfully written, directed and acted, and is riveting from start to finish despite its length. This is easily one of the best films of 2018 so far, and is much more than the “whodunit?” type of film that it seemed to be based on its advertisements. Give this movie your money, because it not only deserves it, but also needs to make enough to show studios that this kind of quality film can be profitable in the box office. If you like movies like this, go watch it in theaters, because you just might help make the case for more of them to be made. 

Dierks Bentley has revived his entire sound, and his videos have gone along for the ride. “Burning Man” (ft. Brothers Osborne) kicks typical country videos up a notch, incorporating perfectly timed graphics and beautiful scenery. The theme of the song is introspective, and the video reflects this by starting off with flickering images of Bentley growing up. The camera then follows him around as he walks through amazing natural landscapes and dances around the stage during concerts. There is no shortage of visual beauty in the video—a barren desert, a lake surrounded by mountains, and clear, starry night are all prominently displayed between clips of Bentley performing live. The video displays various clips of swirling, dark storm clouds to add intensity to an already fiery song. The song’s passionate lyrics are reflected perfectly in the mysterious natural scenery shown throughout the video. The sharp contrasts between the peaceful outdoors and Bentley’s concerts mirror the instability mentioned in the lyrics. The building intensity culminates in an ardent display of natural forces during the bridge. Lightning, dust storms, and fireworks take over during the most passionate part of the song, likely representing the pent-up anger and rage felt by Bentley. At one point, Brothers Osborne joins Bentley on a beautiful arid, desert terrain. The sun is setting on a lake, reflecting pink and orange all over in what is easily the most relaxing part of the video. Brothers Osborne’s incredible guitar playing adds another dimension to the experience. Their amazing instrumentals take the song from good to great. Although there is no real progression or storyline within the video, it reflects the feel of the song perfectly. It does not fail to portray the song’s perfect balance of intensity and introspection—in fact, the lyrics are more vivid to the audience when accompanied by the video. 

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‘DazQuest’ Sends BC Icon on Statue Hunt Screaming all for naught.” But the creation of DazQuest wasn’t all smooth sailing. Creative differences drove huge rifts between these three friends. First among them was a spelling disagreement. Artman and Layden both spell the word for the bushy hair that appears between the upper lip and the nose differently. “I spell it m-o-u[-stache],” Layden said. “I’m not great at spelling.” “I just don’t think the ‘o’ should be there,” Artman said. “It’s a huge point of contention.” DazQuest’s form took a lot of inspiration from other adventure games. Among them is the classic The Secret of Monkey Island and the not-so-clas-

sic Don’t Shit Your Pants. The game’s intention is to nearly parody a normal game—satirizing BC culture while riffing on a few video game tropes. The story of the game drew from a wholly different set of inspirations. Described by the creators as “very noir-inspired,” DazQuest pays a certain twisted homage to the classic films that might actually be detective or noir stories. “It’s the Citizen Kane of interactive fanfiction about college football coaches,” Layden said. “It’s definitely the best video game to feature Steve Addazio,” Zogby said. “Especially since its only competition is NCAA Football 14—not up to par.” While the main purpose of the

game is to entertain BC students, there are a few ulterior motives harbored by these three. Part of the plan is to actually talk to Addazio about it. There’s a part of DazQuest where players can choose to tweet at Addazio a pre-written message that reads “Hello @BCCoachAddazio! I’ve been enjoying your game, have you seen it yet?” along with a link to the game. Layden also has his own plan. “My plan is to find all the football players on the student directory and then send out a mass email like ‘Hey show this to your coach,’” Layden said. “Either from the New England Classic Gmail or make another Gmail that’s like showstevedazquest@gmail.

com.” There is one last form of redundancy to get Addazio’s attention. Near the section where you can tweet at him, there is another option. It reads “If you are Mr. Addazio, please click here.” This link takes you to another page that serves as a warning, a “TURN BACK NOW” of sorts, making sure that only the real Addazio continues on to read the “personal heartfelt message intended for Steve Addazio and Steve Addazio alone.” That message will, of course, remain confidential for the sake of journalistic integrity, because no one would ever lie about who they are on the internet. Not even the players of DazQuest. n

‘Long Walk Home’ Addresses #MeToo-Era Violence By Kaylie Ramirez Assoc. Arts Editor

Sexual assault is one of the most pressing issues on college campuses, and Boston College is no stranger to the devastation of sexual violence: A total of 39 rapes were reported at BC last year, 11 more than were reported in 2016. The #MeToo movement has created a space for women to share their stories of sexual assault with the expectation of being believed. For Salamishah Tillet, a professor in the Africana studies and gender, sexuality, and women’s studies departments at the University of Pennsylvania, sharing her story of rape through art is a source of profound healing. The Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics invited Tillet and her sister Scheherazade Tillet, an artist and activist, to share their unique story of survival in a lecture titled “A Long Walk Home: Ending Violence against Women and Girls” in Higgins 300 on Oct. 11. The Tillets did not stand behind a podium and deliver a long-winded speech about sexual assault—in keeping with the art therapy approach the Tillet sisters use in their treatment for sexual assault survivors, the two women engaged the audience with photos, videos, and open dialogue throughout the event. Salamishah first publicly shared her story of survival in a University of Pennsylvania-based feminist newspaper Generation XX, but she found great release in art in the following years. Weeks prior to the publication of the story, which was titled “Hollow Body, Skin and Bone,” Salamishah told her sister she had been raped when she was a freshman at the university in 1992. Scheherazade immediately began documenting her sister’s healing process through the lens of her camera. The resulting images are part of a collection titled Stories of a Rape Survivor (SOARS) and are charged with raw emotion: “A Long Walk Home,” the first image taken for the project that spanned more than a decade, depicts an out-of-focus Salamishah looking away from the camera with

distress clear in her wide eyes. The image gets its name from a poem Salamishah wrote about the walk home the night she was sexualy assaulted. Other images provide a look into Salamishah’s therapy sessions. “Hollow Eyes” is a close up of Salamishah on the day she ran into her perpetrator six years after the assault. A blank stare permeates the image, conveying the emptiness survivors often have to overcome after such a traumatic event. All black-and-white, the photos mark individual pit-stops on a long road to recovery, one that the Tillet sisters have taken together. “I used the camera to go to therapy with her,” Scheherazade said. The images have been featured in acclaimed documentaries NO! The Rape Documentary and Rape Is…, and also played a critical role in the Tillet sisters’ SOARS multimedia production that was performed on college campuses across the country in the early 2000s, including Salamishah’s alma mater. A trailer from the upcoming documentary SOARS showed clips of the performance, which includes powerful poetry and dance compositions. Scheherazade drew upon the controversy of Brett Kavanaugh’s recent confirmation to the Supreme Court to convey why it was so important for the Tillet sisters to use performance art to tell Salamishah’s story of survival. The activist drew attention to the senators who replied to Christine Blasey Ford, a survivor of sexual assault, with “I believe you, but …” during the hearings. “We [non-survivors] will never understand, but I wanted people to feel,” Scheherazade said. Together, the sisters founded the nonprofit organization A Long Walk Home in 2003 to empower young people in Chicago to end violence against girls and women, and they continue to train young black leaders through the program. Keeping black women and girls engaged in the conversation is crucial for the activists—black girls are at the intersection of two defining movements of the decade: the #BlackLivesMatter and

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Salamishah and Scheherazade Tillet spoke personally about violence against women.

#MeToo movements. The organization also utilizes art therapy to allow the girls in the program to express their emotions surrounding sexual violence and other intersectional girlhood issues. Salamishah finds that art is not only a method of healing, but a vehicle for progress, and she aims to spread

the use of art in activism to future generations. “The artists have the answers that the law hasn’t caught up to,” Salamishah said. “In the space of the artistic imagination, you not only see the world as it is, but as it could and should be. For me, art is where justice lives.” n

Woodard Speaks About Black Power, Black Art By Stephanie Liu Heights Staff

Sarah Lawrence College professor Komozi Woodard detailed the evolution of two black power-focused movements that began in the 1960s in his talk “Black Arts and the Black Power Movement” on Wednesday. Woodard began the talk by speaking about paradigm changes, which were both what the Black Arts Move-

ment tried to effect and what it tried to fight against. Speaking about the context of the movement, Woodard lamented the cultural erasure that has occured due to the Marxist associations that many prominent artists in the movement had. Many of these artists were metaphorically buried because of the paranoia of the ongoing Cold War at the time. In addition, black culture was deemed by the old paradigm as a culture of poverty, in

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spite of a wealth of black artists who were ready and willing to express themselves. Black female artists, especially, have been underrepresented by society and remain unseen, even today. Woodard, however, stressed the importance of females in the movement and how their participation was essential to the significance and power of the movement. Woodard showed a section of a film about Sonia Sanchez, an architect of the Black Arts Movement and a famous poet, who at first had a militant, aggressive attitude towards racial issues, but later shifted to a narrative of peace. The modern trends of hip-hop music—those that have become part of mainstream pop culture—could not have existed without the support of pioneers such as Sanchez and other members of the Black Arts Movement. Woodard also confronted some of the problems with the modern perceptions of the Black Arts Movement. Many people believe the fundamental doctrine of the Black Arts Movement

is “black is beautiful.” Woodard points out, however, that the Black Arts Movement also confronts what is ugly in black culture. Poets and artists not only celebrate their culture, but also expose the problems within it. The Black Arts Movement also helped organize black communities, coordinating park spaces and providing education to children. Woodard spoke about experiences in New York where black artists started multicultural art movements in the Lower East Side. Speaking ab out how the arts movement was never always only about black people, Woodard talked about how Amiri Baraka, a founding member of the Black Arts Movement, also helped with a Puerto Rican arts movement in New York. In his lecture, Woodard offered deep insights into the Black Arts Movement, especially the people who were buried by the culture at the time. Speaking about changing the norms, the Black Arts Movement has certainly influenced current culture, and its effects are still felt to this day. n

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So every week for a long time, I’ve been setting up the budget of stories for the arts section of The Heights. This includes perusing the events calendar for McMullen exhibits and Robsham plays, as well as sorting through the mess that is it the OrgSync calendar to see what dance teams are doing, or whether an a cappella group is having a show. But as I’m sure is very clear by now, the arts section also writes about things that aren’t going on at Boston College. This means that I have to have a decent handle on what’s coming out in the world of film, television, and music. With this knowledge, I carefully craft the artisanal selection of fruits and cheeses movies, shows, and albums that I offer to the staff every week. For the television part of this, I use Metacritic. The site curates a list of new television shows sorted by the day of premiere. This helps me to pick out what’s current and also what is popular. Next to the names of the titles are the networks on which they premiere—CBS, ABC, USA, and more. But, more and more, the networks next to the show titles aren’t so much networks as they are streaming services, like Netflix, HBO (I know it was and still is a channel, but I think most of its newer subscribers are streaming it on HBO Now), Hulu, and Amazon Prime are popping up much more often than actual television networks. It’s no surprise that these monster platforms are creating their own content more often than acquiring existing shows. What has been surprising, however, has been the appearance of other streaming services, especially as I look ahead at the coming months. For example, last Friday a show called Titans aired its first episode. I knew that this show was coming, and I figured that a new show about the Teen Titans might make for some interesting content. When I went to include its platform, I was expecting Netflix, or Hulu, or even the CW. Instead, it said DC Universe. I had heard tell of such a thing, but I thought that it was much too soon. The good times were not yet behind us. It wasn’t time yet. It can’t be time yet. I need more time. For you see, DC Universe is a new streaming service that fans can pay for monthly or yearly that will create its own content and feature classic DC shows and movies. Which means that there might be yet another streaming platform that people will be expected to pay for in order to stay current on the latest shows. What worries me even more is that Disney has been working to do the same thing for quite some time. At the end of the year, Disney will end its agreement with Netflix. Next year it will launch its very own streaming service that will feature all of the Marvel movies as well as brand new Star Wars content. Since Disney is an even bigger and more ubiquitous set of properties than DC, this new streaming service is one that will definitely give Netflix and HBO a run for their money (and consumers a run for theirs). CBS is also doing this with CBS All Access (although it’s mostly Star Trek content so who cares?). But the point I’m trying to make here is that it’s increasingly not enough to just have Netflix. It’s not enough to have Netflix and HBO. It’s not enough to just have Netflix, HBO, Hulu, and Amazon. And if you want to watch sports, you’re still paying for cable. I thought we had these huge streaming services because we wanted to get rid of cable. Why? Because it’s so expensive. But if I’m paying for six streaming services every month, am I really saving any money? And I still can’t watch baseball. And my prediction is that, 10 years down the line, we’re going to have to do this again. We will have so many streaming services people won’t pay for that some of them will be bought by others, and we will go back to have just a few really really big services. Or at least I hope so. I don’t want to pay $60 per month to eight different streaming services just to rewatch episodes of The Office.

Jacob Schick is the arts editor for The Heights. He can be reached at arts@ bcheights.com.

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Check your nightly news, because there’s a new craze that all the young people are doing. It’s not rainbow parties, or new emojis. No, this is something bigger—and perhaps more detrimental to the fabric of our society here at Boston College. Brought to you by three editors of the best publication on campus—The New England Classic (NEC)—is yet another way to sit in a class and learn nothing. This past Wednesday, DazQuest was finally released. DazQuest is an interactive textbased video game in which you play as BC football coach Steve Addazio as he tries to find the missing Doug Flutie statue. The inception for this idea came— like many great ideas—from boredom. Josh Artman, editor-in-chief of the Classic and MCAS ’19, spent last semester studying abroad in Israel. Every weekend, the country would essentially shut down for the Shabbat holiday. When he wasn’t traveling, Artman found that he would just stay in his room for the whole weekend. Artman, when bored at home in the States, plays video games. In Israel, however, video games were so scarce that Artman decided

that he would make his own. There was an open-source software called Twine that would provide him the template for it—he just needed a story. Considering his background on the satire paper, Artman knew his game needed to be sufficiently goofy. There was no choice but Addazio as the subject of this video game/character study. “We do all these silly articles, [he’s a] fun character to work with—let’s just take that, turn it up to 11, com-

pletely go overboard with it, kill the joke,” Artman said. “That’s how we ended up with an 8,000+ [word] interactive fan fiction about the man himself.” But Artman didn’t do this all on his own. Forming up the rest of the dynamic trio are Luke Layden, “video guy” of the NEC and MCAS ’19, and Peter Zogby, editor of the NEC and MCAS ’21. They got on board when Artman

sent out a demo of the game to the other editors. Having collaborators made the project doable over the course of the summer and beginning of the semester, with each working on different sections piecemeal. All three of them agreed that this project was very different from their previous work for publication. Writing an article for the Classic is a much more streamlined and less permanent process. Typically the writer will come up with the funny idea and share it with the other editors to see if it’s

When asked to describe DazQuest, the three of them laughed. “First of all I would say it’s pretty epic,” Artman said. “This is a chooseyour-own adventure—except it’s not.” The game’s design is fairly linear in story, but the interactivity and small personal choices make it stand out. “There’s a very retro feel to it— you’re not moving an avatar on the screen,” Zogby said. “It’s text-based.” Most of the screens in the game are lines of text that players click to

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worth writing about. Once it goes up on the website, its presence is never much longer than a week—it’s pushed aside in favor or newer articles being published. Working on DazQuest has been an exercise in long-term writing. The scenes in the game have to be funny, but they also have to tie into what came before or after in the story.

progress the story. “That’s why I think the term interactive fanfiction is the best descriptor for it,” Layden said. The three of them have taken to calling it a video game for the sake of clarity for the student body, but also as a way to explain what they are doing when asked—especially by their parents. The game has kept them in the library late at night, and it does

sound a little more acceptable to call it a video game. “Mom, you’re never going believe this interactive fanfiction I’m working on,” Zogby said. “Everytime I talk to my parents on the phone I’m like ‘Oh, I’m a little behind on school work, I’m doing the game,’” Artman said. “And everytime I have to re-explain what it is I’m wasting everyone’s time with.” The creators have spent a long time studying and watching the subject of their game. They are aware that he is a very real person, which sometimes makes the idea of this game a little weird— and maybe a bit uncomfortable. But that hasn’t stopped them. “I kinda feel like he’s my son,” Zogby said. When asked to explain his paternal feelings, Zogby had the following to say: “We’ve spent so much time with him. We’ve looked into his life and predicted the way he would have interactions, the same way a parent might do with a son. Now I see him out there working, and it just warms my heart. This guy that we put so much work into is still out there just doing his job. If I invested a lot of work into him and he stopped coaching, it’s

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BY JACOB SCHICK

Arts Editor

When I received an email from the New England Classic with the subject “DazQuest Press Copy,” I wasn’t sure what to expect. I had spoken with the game’s co-creators, but you never really know what you’re going to get until you’ve spent some time playing the game. The press copy came in the form of a zip file whose capacity for viruses Google was unable to scan. Would the New England Classic have sent me a virus instead of the video game

we had spent 90 minutes discussing? I wouldn’t put it past them. But, with Windows Security Defender humming in the background, I unzipped the folder and opened the Chrome HTML file. I was greeted by a black screen with UIS style font that read “Loading…” and below, in red font—which I would later understand signified clickable links—“Start!” DazQuest is, first and foremost, a story-based game. While there is opportunity for choice-based outcomes and dialogue trees, the end result is fairly linear. This does not mean, how-

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ever, that completion is guaranteed. Mini-games and potential death stand in the way of victory in DazQuest. But what will really have players restarting their copy of the game is the varying choice tree. Throughout the game, players will have the chance to take their characters to different locations, or choose different quest items, which may affect their individual experiences—sometimes much later in the game. The game begins, logically, at “Chapter 1: ’Dazzed and Confused.” The player’s character wakes from a deep slumber—perhaps paying homage to the text-based, en media res, introduction of many entries in the long-standing Pokemon series. The alarm clock is blaring Twisted Sister’s “I Wanna Rock,” but it is not yet clear why. The developing text draws the players in, compelling them to click on in search of the answers to their questions. Questions like “Why is my character listening to Twisted Sister’s ‘I Wanna Rock?’” and “Wasn’t that song spoofed in the 2004 animated classic The Spongebob SquarePants Movie?” and “Why does my character have so many satin

robes?” But most importantly, questions like “Who am I?” DazQuest answers these questions with “Because your character is a huge Sisterhead,” “Yes,” “Because it’s safe to say that you’re a bit of a strange person,” and “You are Steve Addazio, the award-winning head coach of the Boston College Eagles Football Team,” respectively. Here is where DazQuest gets interesting, and where the name starts to make sense. You play as Addazio, and you’re spending an adventurous day in the life. The Doug Flutie statue outside Alumni Stadium has been stolen and it’s up to you to track down the missing BC icon. Gameplay in DazQuest is scarce, but welcome when it does appear. A highlight of DazQuest is the minigame called Garfield: My Big Fat Diet, which is available to play on Addazio’s iPod Touch. The gameplay is simple, but enjoyable, conferring a sense of success and accomplishment upon completion of all 10 levels. This lack of more traditional gameplay does not detract from DazQuest overall. What the title lacks in button-mashing, quick time events, and time challenges, it makes up for in

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compelling narrative and engaging dialogue. Characters seem to leap off the screen. This is unsurprising, considering the hard, no-nonsense look that Classic creators took with the portrayal of these real-life BC personas. It’s clear that the writers of DazQuest did their research. You start off at Addazio’s home, located in Dennis, Mass. This quiet Cape Cod town is the real-life location of the football coach’s residence. There are options for character customization in the form of wardrobe selection, but each choice is something players can picture the man himself wearing. The soundtrack for DazQuest is also unparalled. Featuring 8-bit remixes of famous songs like “Welcome to the Jungle,” “Mr. Blue Sky,” and “Fly Like an Eagle,” DazQuest is certainly a game to be played in class with AirPods in your ears. DazQuest is a recent addition to the often-forgotten choose-yourown-adventure style of games like The Secret of Monkey Island or the TellTale games series. Fans of more traditional games and indie platformers alike will enjoy DazQuest, even if only for its personal and shockingly intimate presentation. 

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